The Hialeah Race Track was first laid out as a dog track by Glenn H. Curtiss, a pioneer aviator and one of the first settlers in the area. It was later converted to a horse track by James Bright ...

The racetrack, nearing its 100th birthday, evokes memories of a golden age of Hialeah, when Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Kennedy visited.

The proposed design shows painted pink flamingos, a nod to the large colony at the Hialeah race track, as well as other birds in flight perched above the columns. Landscaping and ground cover ...

The flamingos remained at Hialeah, nesting in the infield as they had for generations, long after the final horse van pulled out of the stable gate.

Hialeah’s owner, John Brunetti, himself, once called the sort of racing that has been going on for a while at backwoods “racetracks” in Northern Florida the “Mickey Mouse circuit.” ...

Hialeah was ultimately doomed when Florida "deregulated" racing -- meaning that dates were no longer assigned by the state; tracks could choose their own dates and forge agreements with one another.

Toward the end of its long heyday as the world's most beautiful racetrack, Hialeah Park won featured roles in movies such as "The Champ" (1979) and "Let It Ride" (1989). But a sentimental baseball ...

Hialeah's finish line looked more like a pasture than a racetrack in 2006. The Flamingo Stakes, run over the main track at Hialeah Park until 2001, was a key Kentucky Derby prep for decades.