Located on the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid, Spain, it was designed by engineer Francisco Boguerín as one of the first official horse racing tracks in the city.

In successive years, the venue also hosted football matches,[1] mainly some Copa del Rey finals.

The site, now occupied by the office buildings of Nuevos Ministerios, was on the outskirts of Madrid at that time.

The main horse racing venue for Madrid, since the mid-twentieth century, has been the Hippodrome de la Zarzuela.

In order for the game to be visible from both sides of a field normally used for horse racing, the playing area was ridiculously large, and to make it worse, horse manure had been used as fertilizer, which in those times created a huge risk of tetanus; the venue was thus likened to a death trap.