Hialeah Park Race Track may be History Chris Perez Dejah Urbanovitch

Hialeah Park Race Track may be History

Chris PerezDejah Urbanovitch

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Timeline•Jan 15, 1925 Opening Day

•1932, major renovation because of The Great Hurricane, including the now famous, Flamingos from Cuba

•Seabiscuit races on Jan 19, 1935

•February 7, 1969 Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major U.S. racetrack

•Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 1979

•May 22, 2001 last race

•Decertified by the city and the stables demolished Dec 2002

Famous Faces at the Track

Sir Winston Churchill

President Truman

The Kennedy's

Sprme Crt Justice Joseph Boyd

Not just a Race TrackMovie set

“I grew up going to breakfast on Sundays at Hialeah Park as a special treat. My sisters and I over the years even sold Girl Scout Cookies at the entrance to the park.” – Connie Emery- Quintana

“I used to love going to see the flamingos and the horses. Funny thing was nobody in my family gambled.” – Elizabeth Cimadevilla

•Weddings

•Quinces

•Leisure

A part of Miami’s past and legacy

Flamingos• The flamingos at the Hialeah Race

Track are world famous. **

• Hatchlings harvested - one of the largest groups in captivity (300)**

• 1937 the first successful captive hatching of an American flamingo.*

• 1940s Hialeah racetrack was a regular supplier of American flamingos to U.S. zoos, and continues to remain a strong source of captive-bred flamingos.*

• St. Louis Zoo, Bronx (N.Y.) Zoo, Birmingham (Ala.) Zoo, Oklahoma, Albuquerque, San Diego, Tulsa, Sacramento and more than a dozen wildlife parks across the country**

• The eggs add unrelated birds to the zoos' flocks so there isn't as much inbreeding, cutting down the genetic problems that causes. **

• They’re still there!

Then and Now

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What are the options?•Re-open as a Race Track

•Restore/ preservation

•Develop the land

•3800 condo proposal

How does each route effect society?

• Analyze based on hand out on blackboard re. water and ecology on economy

• Estaban bovo’s comments (city council pres)

• Chri Bailer (UM coach)

You want to save the Park?

www.SaveHialeahPark.comVote for Slots Referendum January 29th

Write the citySpread the word

You decide the futurePave paradise and put up a parking lot