Parole Hunt Club

The Parole Hunt Club was a half-mile race track in Parole, Maryland, dedicated to horse racing, including pacers and trotters, on land now known as Riva Road.

Until its redevelopment as a shopping center in the late 1950s the club was the location of the first recorded formal horse race in Maryland.

The first jockey club was founded in Annapolis in around 1750,[1] and racing soon grew to become an important part of the social and political life of the colony.

The first formal horse race in Maryland took place at Parole in May 1743.

The Parole Hunt Club racetrack was sold in the late 1950s to property developers, and in 1962 it became a shopping center known as the Parole Plaza, which was torn down and redeveloped between 2004 and 2008 to become a mixed-use development called Annapolis Towne Center at Parole, now known as Annapolis Town Center.