Club Hípico de Santiago is a thoroughbred horse race track in Santiago, Chile.
The Club Hípico de Santiago, opened in 1870, is Chile's oldest racetrack and home to South America's oldest stakes race, the Clásico El Ensayo. It is one of Chile's three main tracks, the others being Hipodromo Chile and Valparaiso Sporting Club.
Club Hípico features a wide right-handed turf course, approximately 2400 m (12 furlongs) long, and is landscaped with garden...
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Club Hípico de Santiago is a thoroughbred horse race track in Santiago, Chile.
The Club Hípico de Santiago, opened in 1870, is Chile's oldest racetrack and home to South America's oldest stakes race, the Clásico El Ensayo. It is one of Chile's three main tracks, the others being Hipodromo Chile and Valparaiso Sporting Club.
Club Hípico features a wide right-handed turf course, approximately 2400 m (12 furlongs) long, and is landscaped with gardens, fountains and ponds.
Apart from the horse racing activity, the venue is also used for concerts, due to the large audience that can attend them and the fact that for some time it was the only venue in Santiago that could hold over 30,000 people for a concert (Estadio Nacional was closed for repair and reopened in September 2010). The Vive Latino festival was held in Chile for the first time on April 15, 2007, attracting over 30,000 people because of the diversity of artists that performed, as three stages where built up and being used at the...
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