Laurel Park Racetrack is a horseracing facility in Laurel, Maryland with two tracks that features thoroughbred racing. Along with the Pimlico Racetrack, it is the home of one of the state’s biggest horseracing events – the Maryland Million. Big races hosted by Laurel Park Racetrack include the Laurel Dash, the Laurel Futurity, the Endless Surprise Stakes, the Conniver Stakes, the Horatius Stakes and the Private Terms Stakes.

Laurel Park Racetrack Facts

Dirt Track Track
• 1-1/8 m oval with a seven furlong chute
• Length of stretch from last turn to finish line: 1,344 feet
• Width of backstretch: 75 feet
• Width of stretch: 75 feet

Turf Course
• 1m inside main track
• Length of stretch from last turn to finish line: 990 feet.
• Width of backstretch: 70 feet.
• Width of stretch: 70 feet
• Turf Course Composition: sandy loam, 65% turf type tall fescue, 25% turf type perennial ryegrass, 10% Blue Grass, Grass height maintained at 4 inches during racing season.

Laurel Park Racetrack has become one of the regular hosts of the Maryland Million, an event that has become one of the nation's best known single days of horseracing excitement. It was envisioned as a local version of the Breeders Cup, and became so popular with both fans and horsemen that it soon attracted imitators throughout the nation. There are now many such days in different states featuring either state-bred or state-sired horses in festival-like atmospheres.

Maryland Million has become the biggest racing day of the fall, and is eclipsed in local importance only by the Preakness Stakes, the venerable second leg of the American Triple Crown.

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