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Pinnacle Race Course was a thoroughbred horse racing track in Huron Township, Michigan, southwest of Detroit off of Interstate 275. [1] The track was just south of the Detroit Metro Airport , in Wayne County .
6 Απρ 2023 · There would be three different tracks: a 1 mile turf track, a 1 1/8 mile dirt track for thoroughbred racing, and a 7/8 mile harness track. A total of 21 barns (36 stalls in each), and a pair of three-story buildings with 52 living units were to be constructed for use as grooms’ quarters.
By 1936, racing at the Detroit Fairgrounds was thriving: even the great Seabiscuit ran his first race for Tom Smith and Charles Howard there. Fast forward 70 years and the once-flourishing racetracks of the Great Lakes State were floundering. Enter Pinnacle Race Course.
Pinnacle Race Course was one mile thoroughbred track located in New Boston, near the Detroit Wayne County Airport, about thirty miles from Detroit. It was a small enclosed structure unlike it's predecessors in Detroit, built mainly for simulcasting.
The first pari-mutuel horse race in the state was held at the Michigan State Fairgrounds in Detroit in 1933. As recently as 1990’s, there were seven horse racing tracks in Michigan, the two largest of which were in the Detroit metropolitan area, but the sport had peaked and tracks began to close.
Pinnacle Race Course was a short-lived horse race track on the Romulus-Huron Township border which was to be the anchor of a proposed Aerotropolis surrounding the lands around Detroit Metro Airport. The attraction attempted to prove that thoroughbred horse racing was still alive and well in Michigan despite the establishment of the Greektown ...
26 Ιαν 2016 · Demolition is under way on a failed $50-million horse racing track that was one of Wayne County's biggest economic development debacles of the past decade. The abandoned Pinnacle Race...
