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Caymanas Park is Jamaica's only race track.[1]

Caymanas Park
LocationGregory Park, St Catherine, Jamaica
Coordinates17.989652°N 76.875050°W / 17.989652; -76.875050
Owned byGovernment of Jamaica[1]
Race typeFlat
Course typeOval with extended straights at NW and SE corners
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It was historically a sugarcane estate in the Colony of Jamaica. It was originally owned by the Ellis family, including George Ellis and Charles Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford, who made substantial profits from sugar and slavery.[2]

It is mentioned in the Pioneers' 1969 song "Long Shot (Kick The Bucket)", which contains the line "What a weeping and a wailing down at Caymanas Park".

Gangster Dennis Barth, known as "Copper", was killed in a shootout with police at the park.


See also



References


  1. A brief history Archived 2009-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, Caymanas Track Limited.
  2. Barry Higman, Montpelier (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 1998), pp. 22-5.


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