Hipodromo Nacional de Maroñas
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Hipódromo Nacional de Maroñas is a horse racing track located in Ituzaingó neighbourhood, in Montevideo
, Uruguay
. It has a 2,065 metres main dirt track and a dirt 2,000 metres training track. It can accommodate 2,426 seating and more than 8,000 overall spectators.
The racetrack was closed between 1997 and 2003, when it was re-opened by a private consortium, Maroñas Entertainment.
Races take place all-year-round every weekend (mostly Saturdays and Sundays though sometimes only on Sundays) and also every January 6 (Three Kings Day), when its most important race, the Gran Premio José Pedro Ramírez
is held.
Montevideo
Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...
, Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
. It has a 2,065 metres main dirt track and a dirt 2,000 metres training track. It can accommodate 2,426 seating and more than 8,000 overall spectators.
The racetrack was closed between 1997 and 2003, when it was re-opened by a private consortium, Maroñas Entertainment.
Races take place all-year-round every weekend (mostly Saturdays and Sundays though sometimes only on Sundays) and also every January 6 (Three Kings Day), when its most important race, the Gran Premio José Pedro Ramírez
Gran Premio José Pedro Ramírez
The Gran Premio José Pedro Ramírez is a Group I flat race for three-year-olds and up, run over a distance of 2400 metres every January 6th in Hipódromo Nacional de Maroñas racetrack in Montevideo, Uruguay.-Winners of the "Ramírez":...
is held.