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4 unusual facts about Hialeah Park Race Track


Gene St. Leon

On February 7, 1976, St. Leon rode Toonerville to a world record time of 1:51 2/5 for one and three sixteenth miles on turf in winning the second division of the Bougainvillea Handicap at Hialeah Park Race Track.

Michael Grace Phipps

Michael Phipps served on the Board of Directors of Hialeah Park Race Track.

Ramón A. Domínguez

He emigrated to the United States where he began riding at Florida's Hialeah Park Race Track in 1996.

Robert Montano

Montana had a life before Broadway: three years as a jockey at Aqueduct, Belmont, Saratoga, Atlantic City, and Hialeah.


Black Helen Handicap

The Black Helen Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida from 1941 through 2001.

Eldon Nelson

On February 28, 1949 at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida he rode Calumet's future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame colt Coaltown to a win that equalled the world record of 1:47 3/5 for a mile-and-an-eighth on dirt.

Pot O'Luck

In February 1947, five-year-old Pot O'Luck won the Cocoanuts Purse at Hialeah Park Race Track and in April earned his second win of the Ben Ali Stakes at Keenland Race Course.


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