[3] After the river was regulated to reduce risk of flooding, racing at Císarská louka ended when the area of the island it was located on decreased.

[3] A racetrack at Karlovy Vary was opened in 1899, but it was decided by the Rennverein that this was not near enough to Prague, which was the desired centre of racing in the Czech Republic.

[5] The very first horse to win at the track was the mare Vision, ridden by her owner, veterinarian Francis Bartosch, during the Opening Stakes.

[3] On 28 March 1919, a meeting of ex-Böhmischer Rennverein members and other racing enthusiasts were organized at the hotel Saský dvůr, in Prague.

There, they founded the Czechoslovak Jockey Club, which adopted the control of the horse racing community of the newly established Czechoslovakian Republic.

[3] The main race, a 1600m event with 20.000 crowns of prize money, was won by the four-year-old Kongo, ridden by Kerész and owned by Oskar Kunz, in a time of 1 minute and 42 seconds.

These included Simonel, the third winner of the Bohemian-Moravian Blue Band, and Cyklon, who ran 86 times in Prague, Karlovy Vary, and Vienna throughout his career.

[3] From May 1945, firefights sprang up between the Prague Uprising and the retreating German soldiers at Velká Chuchle and other surrounding villages.

[3] On 9 May, when Prague was finally celebrating its liberation, Germans troops shot at a munitions train at Velká Chuchle station, which caught fire and set the surrounding area and the wooden stables alight.

In 1950, in the aftermath of the Second World War, Czechoslovakian stables fell under federal control, and private bookmakers vanished.

[3] Aside from horses, Velká Chuchle profited from individuals, namely trainers Jaroslav Houra, Josef Celler, Karel Truhlar, and František Huleš.

[3] The elite jockey Karel Havelka dominated the races, and his foreign rivals had to prepare to compete with his riding style.

First, leading professionals began to leave Velká Chuchle, new jockeys and trainers did not have any international experience, the racing facilities had not been cared properly for, and were beginning to be in a bad state, and breeding and training methods were deteriorating in quality.

[3] Furthermore, other socialist countries, more populous than Czechoslovakia, such as the Soviet Union, had growing flat racing centers, pushing out Velká Chuchle.

[3] In 1965, things had begun to go better for Czechoslovak racing, with Myjavan from Motešice coming within one tenth of a second of Masis' record.

Unfortunately for Velká Chuchle's history, Ina Schwarzkächel won the Dutch Derby in 1970, robbing Hermansdorferová of this honor.

[3] On 26 May 1976, the stallion Masis was put to sleep, and, one year later, La Legion gave birth to his foal at Napajedla.

[3] While the new grandstand was being built at Velká Chuchle, racing transferred to West Bohemian racecourse at Karlovy Vary.

[3] At the beginning of the 1991 season, racing returned to Velká Chuchle, and, in the same year, Vlastimil Smolík won the Czechoslovak Derby for the sixth time, riding Lykeion, setting a new record.

[3] Velká Chuchle's well kept records allowed it access to European racing organizations and authorities without any problems.

[3] Famous South African jockey Michael Roberts visited the track for the 1997 Czech Derby, and rode two winners.

In November 2001, the Jockey Club of the Czech Republic, the highest racing authority in the country, with support from various investors, bought the facilities at the Velka Chuchle racecourse.

A daughter company, TMM (Turf Management and Marketing), was established, and has been organizing racing at the Prague-Velká Chuchle Racecourse since.

[6] In the week starting 12 August, extensive flooding of the Vltava and Berounka rivers wreaked havoc at the racecourse.

Having survived smaller floods, two world wars, and stables fires, the racecourse was accustomed to, and prepared for, such natural and manmade disasters.

When the water level fell, the exact extent of the damages to the racecourse appeared for the first time, and unfortunately exceeded even the most pessimistic expectations.

The Czech St Leger, an important flat race, was delayed by merely one week, impressive considering the extent of the damages.