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Located in Henderson, Kentucky, about south of Evansville, Indiana, lies Ellis Park, a thoroughbred racecourse. The border between Kentucky and Indiana is based on the flow of the Ohio River at the time Kentucky became a state in 1792, even though the track is located north of the river, placing it within Indiana.
Ellis Park Race Course History
In 1922, the Green River Jockey Club constructed Ellis Park. For a five-day race meeting, it first hosted a harness meeting on the Grand Circuit with payouts totaling $32,000. A 10-day thoroughbred meet with $62,000 in purses was held on November 10, 1922. The meet served as a detour on the train headed south to Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans for winter racing.
The Green River Jockey Club filed for bankruptcy in 1925, three years after it had opened, due to these brief meetings not meeting the track’s requirements. A Rockport businessman named James C. Ellis bought the track, which was then known as Dade Park, in 1925. He added a terrace grandstand and a totalisator wagering system, among other improvements to the track. In 1954, the building was renamed Ellis Park. 1956 saw the death of James Ellis.
Lester E. Yeager, Ellis’s nephew, took over as the track manager at that point. Yeager oversaw the construction of a new clubhouse, stable buildings, paddock, and jockey’s quarters. In the middle of the 1960s, he granted Ruth Adkins leadership. The James C. Ellis estate, which still controlled the track, companies, and properties in Kentucky and Indiana, was led by Adkins. 1985 saw the sale of the song to Roger and Lila Kumar. They campaigned for Kentucky’s inter-track wagering laws and constructed a sky terrace atop the Grandstand. In 1989, they sold the racetrack to Racing Corporation of America. In 1998, the firm sold Churchill Downs Incorporated the track.
When a tornado blew across the neighborhood on November 6, 2005, several racehorses perished and the racetrack sustained significant damage.
A Kentucky businessman named Ron Geary acquired Ellis Park from Churchill Downs Incorporated on July 17, 2006, for an undisclosed amount of money. The dates of the track would be changed such that Ellis Park would host racing on July 4th, which would fall during Churchill Downs’ last week of racing. The Claiming Crown, which debuted in Kentucky for the first time and was held anywhere other than Canterbury Park for the first time since its 2002 hosting in Philadelphia Park, was the main attraction of the 2007 meet.
After a federal judge rejected an injunction against the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association in an ongoing dispute over simulcast wagering profits, Ellis Park owner Ron Geary declared on July 2, 2008, that he would close the track. But on July 5, Ellis Park and the group came to an agreement that would see the track reopened. Horsemen would receive a higher portion of the proceeds from wagering under this arrangement.
Citing a lack of purse money relative to other courses and a shortage of horses, Geary informed the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on March 9, 2009, that he would be reducing the number of races that year and planning to close the track the following year. Nevertheless, Ellis Park remained open for business for the 2010 season, with the inaugural race taking place on July 10, 2010.
The 1.125-mile dirt track of the venue was inspired by the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. The track has chutes for one mile (1.6 km) and seven furlong races. In 1993, a grass track measuring one mile (1.6 km) was set out. The complex spans 210 acres (0.85 km2) and features 38 barns in addition to a 6,000-seat grandstand. A one-mile (1.6-kilometer) chute that turns into a 90-degree angle by the first turn makes this track unique in the nation. This is because the Wilson Chute, a one-mile (1.6-kilometer) chute, was once employed at Saratoga Race Course.
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