Grand Circuit
The Grand Circuit , även känd som "Big Wheel", är en grupp av kappseglingstävlingar som körs på olika racerbanor runt om i USA . Spring på en mils banor är det "den äldsta pågående hästkapplöpningsserien i USA."
Serien startades 1871 av överste Billy Edwards , från Cleveland, Ohio , LJ Powers of Springfield, Massachusetts , EA Buck of Buffalo, New York , och senare CW Hutchinson från Utica, New York . Circuitens första möte hölls 1873 i Cleveland, följt av tävlingar i Springfield, Buffalo och Utica. Den hette ursprungligen "The Quadrilateral Trotting Combination", men döptes om när ytterligare sträckor lades till.
1914 bestod Grand Circuit av sex banor: Cleveland, Ohio , Columbus, Ohio , Lexington, Kentucky , Detroit, Michigan , Grand Rapids, Michigan och Kalamazoo, Michigan . Dessförinnan fanns det fler, inklusive Providence, Rhode Island , Hartford, Connecticut , Boston, Massachusetts , Salem, New Hampshire , New York City och Poughkeepsie, New York , men lagar mot spel under den tidiga delen av 1900-talet orsakade dem att hoppa av.
Från och med 2004 körs den årligen på en bana med 20 banor.
Aktuella spår
Källa:
- Charlottetown Driving Park
- Delaware County Fairgrounds racerbana (1940–nutid)
- Dover Downs
- Freehold Raceway
- Historiskt spår (1911, 1927–1942, 1946–nuvarande)
- Hippodromen de Trois-Rivières
- Harrahs Philadelphia
- Hoosier Park
- Hollywood Gaming på Dayton Raceway (1989–nuvarande)
- Indiana State Fairgrounds (1926–1941, 1946–nuvarande)
- Meadowlands Racetrack (1977–nuvarande)
- The Meadows Racetrack and Casino (1966–nutid)
- Miami Valley Gaming
- Mohawk Racetrack (1978–nuvarande)
- Mohegan Sun Pocono
- Northfield Park
- Plainridge Park Casino
- The Red Mile (1904, 1912–nutid)
- Saratoga Race Course (1942–nuvarande)
- Eldorado Gaming Scioto Downs
- Tioga Downs (2006–nuvarande)
- Vernon Downs (1954–nuvarande)
- Western Fair
- Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino (1899–1890, 1903–1905, 1910, 1913, 1951–nuvarande)
Tidigare spår
- Cleveland Driving Park (1871–1904)
- Buffalo Driving Park (1871–1878, 1880–1884, 1886–1894, 1898–1902)
- Hampden Park (1871–1877, 1880–1881, 1883–1893)
- Utica Driving Park (1871–1879, 1881–1884, 1886–1888)
- Rochester Driving Park (1875–1895)
- Poughkeepsie Driving Park (1875–1877, 1882, 1889–1890, 1894, 1906–1909, 1916, 1918–1922)
- Homewood Park (1881–1882, 1884, 1890–1893)
- Narragansett Park (1883–1885, 1899–1905, 1907)
- Charter Oak Park (1876–1892, 1894, 1897–1925, 1929–1932)
- Island Park (1884–1889)
- Detroit Driving Club (1886)
- Fleetwood Park Racetrack (1888–1890, 1893–1897)
- Point Breeze Park (1890–1894)
- Hamtramck Park (1893)
- Union Park (1894–1896)
- Grosse Pointe Track (1894–1917)
- Columbus Driving Park (1896–1925)
- Indianapolis (1896)
- Fort Wayne Driving Park (1896–1898)
- Glens Falls Mile Track (1897–1901)
- Readville Race Track (1897–1908, 1910–1912, 1918–1925)
- Rigby Park (1898)
- Vigo County Fairgrounds (1900–1902)
- New York State Fairgrounds Racetrack (1901–1930, 1933–1941)
- Chester Park (1901–1906)
- Brighton Beach Race Course (1902–1904)
- Kenilworth Park Race Track (1903–1908)
- North Memphis Driving Park (1904–1905)
- Elkwood Park (1908–1909)
- Kalamazoo Recreation Park/Exposition Park (1908–1931)
- Fort Erie Race Track (1909–1914, 1932–1934)
- Forest City Fairgrounds (1909–1939, 1945)
- Indianapolis Speedway (1911)
- Comstock Park (1911–1915, 1927, 1929–1930)
- Pittsburgh Driving Club (1912–1914, 1916)
- Rockingham Park (1912–1913, 1932–1934)
- Michigan State Fairgrounds Speedway (1912–1914, 1927, 1929)
- Windsor Fair Grounds (1913)
- Montreal Exposition Grounds (1915)
- Piedmont Driving Club (1916–1922, 1925–1928)
- Belmont Driving Park (1917–1922)
- Maumee Downs (1918–1930, 1932–1941, 1947–1951)
- Devonshire Raceway (1923–1924)
- Aurora Downs (1925, 1929–1930, 1947–1950)
- Ideal Park (1926)
- Monroe Driving Park (1926)
- Orange County Fair Speedway (1926)
- Coney Island Race Track (1929)
- Thorncliffe Park Raceway (1931)
- London Fairgrounds (1931)
- Illinois State Fairgrounds Racetrack (1931–1941, 1946–2015)
- Good Time Park (1935–1956)
- Ohio State Fairgrounds (1936–1937)
- Milwaukee Fairgrounds (1936, 1941–1948)
- Drakbana (1936–1939, 1942–1946, 1949)
- Reading Fairgrounds (1937–1943, 1946–1955)
- Agawam Park (1937–1938)
- Mineola Race Track (1940)
- Narragansett Park (1940)
- Kentucky State Fairgrounds (1940–1941)
- Roosevelt Raceway (1941–1987)
- Buffalo Raceway (1941, 1966–????)
- New Jersey State Fairgrounds (1944–1945)
- DuQuoin State Fairgrounds Racetrack (1944–2009)
- Santa Anita Park (1946, 1948, 1950, 1952)
- Maywood Park (1947–1950)
- Hollywood Park (1947, 1949, 1951, 1953–????)
- Fairmount Park Racetrack (1949–1950)
- Missouri State Fair Speedway (1949–????)
- Wolverine Raceway (1951–????)
- Hazel Park Raceway (1954–????)
- Bay State Raceway (1956–????)
- Sportsman's Park (1956–1997)
- Arden Downs (1957–1962)
- Suffolk Downs (1960)
- Rosecroft Raceway (1961–????)
- Baltimore Raceway (1961–????)
- Monticello Raceway (1961–????)
- Grandview Raceway (1961–????)
- Liberty Bell Park Racetrack (1966–1983)
- Phoenix Trotting Park (1966)
- Pompano Park (1966–2021)
- Atlantic City Race Course
- Brandywine Raceway (1971–1985)
- Garden State Park Racetrack
- Los Alamitos Race Course
- Freestate Raceway
- Batavia Downs