The History of the Hippodrome
The sand track, inaugurated on October 1, 1994, has an extension of 2,590 meters with the main bend, while with an inside bend its layout is reduced to 2,200 meters. The width of the track is 31 meters, allowing the participation of up to twenty-four horses per race. Built with cava sand, its consistency is extremely agile and elastic. The covered area reaches 32,000 square meters, of which 5,000 correspond to the Official Grandstand, 2,000 to the Professional Grandstand, 7,000 to the Paddock and 18,000 to the general grandstands. With a capacity for 100,000 spectators in the six grandstands, the record attendance was achieved during the 1952 Carlos Pellegrini Grand Prix, when 102,600 people attended.
The reopening of the racetrack took place on December 8, 1979, once again under the management of the Jockey Club and notoriously modernized with the incorporation of an electronic betting totalizer with 597 vending machines. The updating works were completed with the installation of a modern artificial lighting system that includes a 69-column layout and projectors over the grandstands, and with a closed-circuit television center consisting of 7 cameras and 180 monitors to follow the races, controlling the times of each race with an electronic teletimer.
There is also a satellite station, located in the center of the tracks, with a 6.1 meter antenna, which allows the transmission of digitized and coded images. On April 28, 1993, a new betting totalizing system with updated technology was inaugurated. Bets are received from external agencies located in the Federal Capital, the Province of Buenos Aires and different localities of the interior of the country. Throughout the year, and without interrupting the activity, around 120 horse racing meetings are held, and in December the Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini, the most important race in the Argentine calendar, takes place. Members may attend with guests to the Official Grandstand, where the use of coat and tie is required. On the first floor of this grandstand, in the Vagón lounge and in the VIP lounge on the third floor, there is a restaurant and cafeteria service during the meetings. Most of the halls with a view of the track, are also suitable for promotional events, presentations or parties.
Veterinary Hospital
The enhancement of the Jockey Club Veterinary Hospital, located in the Training Center of the Training Center of the San Isidro Racecourse, implied an important investment to revalue a health center that occupies a prominent place in the thoroughbred horse industry.
in the thoroughbred racehorse industry.
Laboratory
The Chemical Service of the San Isidro Racecourse performs the control of Doping in its own- and third-party samples from official races held in different official races held in different scenarios of the national territory.
The sand track, inaugurated on October 1, 1994, has an extension of 2,590 meters with the main bend, while with an inside bend its layout is reduced to 2,200 meters. The width of the track is 31 meters, allowing the participation of up to twenty-four horses per race. Built with cava sand, its consistency is extremely agile and elastic. The covered area reaches 32,000 square meters, of which 5,000 correspond to the Official Grandstand, 2,000 to the Professional Grandstand, 7,000 to the Paddock and 18,000 to the general grandstands. With a capacity for 100,000 spectators in the six grandstands, the record attendance was achieved during the 1952 Carlos Pellegrini Grand Prix, when 102,600 people attended.
The reopening of the racetrack took place on December 8, 1979, once again under the management of the Jockey Club and notoriously modernized with the incorporation of an electronic betting totalizer with 597 vending machines. The updating works were completed with the installation of a modern artificial lighting system that includes a 69-column layout and projectors over the grandstands, and with a closed-circuit television center consisting of 7 cameras and 180 monitors to follow the races, controlling the times of each race with an electronic teletimer.
There is also a satellite station, located in the center of the tracks, with a 6.1 meter antenna, which allows the transmission of digitized and coded images. On April 28, 1993, a new betting totalizing system with updated technology was inaugurated. Likewise, bets are received from external agencies located in the City of Buenos Aires, the Province of Buenos Aires and different towns of the interior of the country. It should be noted that, throughout the year, and without interrupting the activity, around 120 horse racing meetings are held, and in December the Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini, the most important race in the Argentine calendar, takes place. With their membership card, members may attend with guests to the Official Grandstand, where the use of jacket and tie is required. On the second floor of this grandstand, in the Vagón lounge and in the V.I.P. lounge on the third floor, there is a restaurant and cafeteria service during the meetings. Most of the halls with a view of the track are also suitable for promotional events, presentations or parties.
Tattersall
Other important facilities complement the equestrian complex. For example, the Tattersall, where auctions of Thoroughbred racing products are held and important business events are organized. Installed in a sector of the Paddock, it has a capacity for 1,100 people seated and 2,500 standing. It has a 9 m diameter circular stage, four private rooms, heating and ventilation system. The Tattersall can be accessed by Marquez Avenue or internally from the parking lots, with its own parking lot.
Training Camp
The Training Field occupies 94 hectares and is made up of 5 tracks. The first, grass, is 2,420 meters long by 30 meters wide; the second, soil and sand, is 2,247 meters by 25 meters; the third, sand and cava, is 2,100 meters by 25; the fourth and fifth, of lesser extension, are made of river sand. San Isidro also has 1,800 boxes distributed in 135 pavilions, where most of the horses participating in the races held at the San Isidro are housed. The Apprentice Jockey
School, where future jockeys are trained according to a practical and theoretical teaching plan that includes the physical preparation of the students, is also located on the premises. There is also a Farrier School, which the institution created for the apprenticeship of this trade, so necessary for the turf activity. The Veterinary Center and the Analysis Laboratory, together with other annexed facilities, complete the Training Field, which also includes a set of Transit Boxes, destined to lodge the horses coming from the interior or from outside the country, which are transferred to participate in the races held in our racetrack. These boxes have facilities for the lodging of the stable staff that accompanies the animals.
Landscaping
The San Isidro Racetrack is surrounded by a park of imposing beauty, carefully designed, with wide open spaces and magnificent boulevards adorned with countless species of trees, plants and flowers. The tree population is made up of a great variety of exotic and indigenous conifers and broadleaf trees, such as cedars, pines, cypresses, oaks, elms, lindens, limes, acers, robinias, liquidambar, ashes, etc., which are very well known and common in the present parks, preferably in the humid pampas. Along with these species mentioned, there are also others of great ornamental value and little known because they are not usually found in landscaped areas, such as Carpinus betulus (hornbeam), Peltophorum dubium (ibirá-pitá), Libocedro decurrens (libocedro), Hacer pseudo-plátano rubra (red acer), Sequoia sempervirens (red-wood), Ulmus parvifolia (elm), Acer dasycarpus laciniata (acer sacharinum), Salix alba vitelina (white willow), Juglans nigra (walnut), Celtis australis (hackberry), and magnificent specimens of ombues and Eucalyptus sideroxilum with black trunk and red flower. In summary, we can affirm that the San Isidro Racetrack offers not only the dynamic and bustling spectacle of the equestrian tournaments, but also a scenario rich in scents and colors, propitious to enjoy pleasant days of strolling in the open air.
