[3] Informal horse races had been held along neighboring Main Street, now part of NY 207, since the 1750s.

[4] In June 1873, Ulysses Grant, then President of the United States, attended races at the track[5] as he was in town to check on the two children of the late John Aaron Rawlins, for whom Grant served as legal guardian.

The Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame, run by a separate organization, is located nearby.

In 2017 a fire, possibly started in the blacksmith's shop, destroyed some of the barns and stables on the property.

The horses housed in them were saved; the blaze did not affect the grandstand or any of the other buildings on the property.