Hazel Park Raceway

Hazel Park Raceway
LocationHazel Park, Michigan
Coordinates42°28′25″N 83°05′11″W / 42.47361°N 83.08639°W / 42.47361; -83.08639
Owned byHartman & Tyner
Date opened1949
Date closed2018[1]
Capacity3,500
Race typeThoroughbred racing

Hazel Park Raceway, located in Hazel Park, Michigan, in the metropolitan Detroit area, was a horse race track. From 1949 it offered live thoroughbred racing every Friday and Saturday night May through mid-September, and also offered harness racing. Beginning in 1996, it offered simulcast wagering seven days a week all year long on thoroughbred and harness races from across the US and Canada. Admission and parking were free. For a period, this was the only track in Michigan to offer live thoroughbred racing.

The track opened in 1949 for Thoroughbred flat racing. In 1953 a harness racing season was added. After 1985, only Standardbred harness racing events were run here until 2014, when Thoroughbred racing was revived.[2] The track was sold and closed in April 2018, leaving Northville Downs as the only horse racing track in Michigan. It closed in 2019. In 2021 an Amazon distribution center opened on the site. [3]

Under the ownership of Bernard Hartman and Herbert Tyner, owners of Hartman and Tyner Inc., in 2009 Hazel Park generated roughly $550,000 in revenue for the City of Hazel Park.[4]

  1. ^ Krupa, Gregg (April 5, 2018). "Hazel Park horse track closure 'devastating'". The Detroit News. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
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  3. ^ https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/08/04/hazel-park-opens-amazon-facility-same-day-delivery/5486477001/
  4. ^ Louwers, Brian (June 3, 2009). "Stakeholders react to possibility of reduced racing days". Madison-Park News (MI).