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Ok folks you asked how you can help and/or donate to the Save Hialeah Park effort...here is the opportunity! Los Primeros have just released their new album seen below. You can purchase it right from here by clicking on the link provided. Proceeds from this album will go directly to the Save Hialeah Park organization to be used for education and creating awareness. The album contains their tribute song Save Hialeah Park. They are a great bunch guys and are very proud of Hialeah Park...the very soul of their home town. Please offer your support and purchase a copy as this album will also be part of Hialeah Park's history.
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Miami Herald Audio Report: "Hialeah Park's Flamingos Draw National Attention" Sun Sentinel Front Page News on October 16th 2007.
LOS PRIMEROS IN THE NEWS! Performing "SAVE HIALEAH PARK."
HIALEAH PARK VIDEO BY: NOEL RIVERA AKA "SNOWY"
SAVE HIALEAH PARK MEMBER PRESENTATION AT HIALEAH SR. HIGH SCHOOL
Hialeah Park 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew wins the Flamingo stakes! Courtesy of "SNOWY"
"Hialeah: what's in a name?", "Hialeah: A Racing Legend", "Beautiful Hialeah", "Path Between The Seas," "The rise of Theodore Roosevelt" "Havana Bay," "Prize," "As a Man Thinketh,"
Welcome to the official myspace page of SAVE HIALEAH PARK.
My name is Alex Fuentes and I am a member of Save Hialeah Park Inc. We are a Non-Profit organization created to educate the public about Hialeah Park, creating awareness as to its fascinating history, current situation, and its significance to South Florida and the Nation.
Hialeah Park is a nationally historic race track built in 1925. Prior to being a horse track the grounds later known as Hialeah Park was home to The Miami Kennel Club (1921) the first pari-mutuel greyhound racing track in the country. This original greyound track was donated by City Founder James Bright and aviation pioneer Glen Curtis (founder of Miami Springs and Opa-locka). Along with the Kennel Club there was an amusement park with a large Ferris wheel, a Seminole Indian tribe settlement, and the first Jai alai fronton in Florida. The days at Hialeah Park in the early 20’s consisted of action packed entertainment and adventure for winter tourists in what was largely swampland. A land boom followed and Hialeah officialy became an incorporated city in 1925 coinciding with the creation of an 1 1/8 mile oval horse track with a new clubhouse grandstand and given the name Hialeah Park.
A year later in the Great Hurricane of 1926 destroyed most of the park and original structures but the original oval horse track is still there today. In 1930 Joseph Widner began a $3 million renovation and recreated the Hialeah Park the world knows today. A magnificent French inspired clubhouse and grandstand were built, a lake was constructed, and a flock of pink flamingos were brought over from Cuba (which still call Hialeah Park home)along with thousands of trees used for its world renowned gardens.
In its 80 + years its grounds have been graced the worlds most famous horses and people. Everybody who was anybody, Rich and Famous or poor the like, around the world wanted to visit its magnificent structures and gardens known worldwide for its elegant beauty. Millions would enter its gates every year.
Since its last race in 2001 Hialeah Park’s gardens and structures have fallen in grave disrepair and continue exposed to the elements as no repairs have taken place. Hurricane “Wilma” dealt a major blow to this legendary place in 2005 and it is not likely that it will survive another one in its current condition. Further aggravating the Park’s situation is the constant threat of demolition and development. In early 2007 the historic stables that were home to thousands of horses every year since the early 30’s were demolished following a unanimous decision by Hialeah's city council.
The flamingos thankfully survived the storm and still reside in on their “Flamingo Island” within the lake built for them over 75 years ago. These mesmerizing creatures served as the only breeding flock in the US providing hatchlings to zoos across North America and still do today. There are more flamingos living in Hialeah Park than there are in the S. Florida wild thanks to the storms of 2004 and 2005.
Please visit us periodically as we will be providing updates. We will post alerts on the bulletins please repost and forward to all your friends.
For more information or to join our mailing list please visit us on the web @ WWW.SAVEHIALEAHPARK.COM
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Click on the links below for information and news pertaining to the Hialeah Race Track, the effort to save it, and the current threat of redevelopment.
For the record I was not referring to just any ordinary "Animal Hospital" in this Associated Press article. What I said was that my favorite idea if racing were never to return to Hialeah Park, was for there to be an Equine Veterinary School with an equine hosital component, utilizing (and preserving) Hialeah’s world renowned low-impact track for the rehabilitation of injured race horses. This is just one part of an adaptive reuse concept created and presented to the city of Hialeah by S. Florida horse trainer Jean Friedberg. We have presented our own as well.
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Thanks for adding me as a friend. You keep up the great work! If you ever get up here to Orlando or Orange City let me or Lynnea (CItation) know and we'll give you a ride on the boat (house) ...we'd love to meet you. Captain ROn
Eight Belles (February 23, 2005 – May 3, 2008) was a gray filly thoroughbred racehorse owned by Rick Porter's Fox Hill Farms. She finished second to winner Big Brown in the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby held at Churchill Downs, a race run by only thirty-nine fillies in the past. Her collapse just after the Derby's conclusion resulted in immediate euthanasia.
Earlier in the year, Eight Belles made history at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, by being the first filly in the history of the track to win the Martha Washington Stakes (February 17, 2008, by 13½ lengths, setting a stakes record for margin of victory), the Honeybee Stakes (March 16, 2008, beating unbeaten stakes winner Pure Clan), and the Fantasy Stakes (April 12, 2008, which she won in an exciting finish).
CONTROVERSY
Veteran Washington Post sportswriter Sally Jenkins wrote that thoroughbred horses had become too strong with bones too lightweight: "She ran with the heart of a locomotive, on champagne-glass ankles." Blaming the breeders and investors, Jenkins claimed, "thoroughbred racing is in a moral crisis, and everyone now knows it."
PETA has called for the suspension of jockey Gabriel Saez and the prize money to be revoked if he is found at fault.
i do not know you personaly sir but i wanted to thank you for this site i hope that at the end we can come in victory and save this park thank you for all your effort my name is miguel gonzalez and have been living in hialeah for 28 years .
Filmed at Hialeah Park 1988
