page_title: Gravesend Race Track
hierarchical_section_title: Gravesend Race Track
caption_attribution_description: Depicted place&#58; Gravesend Race Track
context_page_description: Gravesend Race Track at Gravesend in Brooklyn, New York was a Thoroughbred horse racing facility that opened in 1886 and closed in 1910. The track was built by the Brooklyn Jockey Club with the backing of Philip and Michael Dwyer, two wealthy racing stable owners known as the Dwyer Brothers. Philip, the controlling shareholder of the Brooklyn Jockey Club, served as its president.
  Gravesend Race Track hosted the Preakness Stakes for fifteen years.
context_section_description: Gravesend Race Track at Gravesend in Brooklyn, New York was a Thoroughbred horse racing facility that opened in 1886 and closed in 1910. The track was built by the Brooklyn Jockey Club with the backing of Philip and Michael Dwyer, two wealthy racing stable owners known as the Dwyer Brothers. Philip, the controlling shareholder of the Brooklyn Jockey Club, served as its president.
  Gravesend Race Track hosted the Preakness Stakes for fifteen years.
caption: Crowd at the 1893 Brooklyn Handicap won by Diabolo at Gravesend Race Track
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