Tropical Park Race Track was a horse racing facility built on 245 acres (0.99 km2) at the current intersection of Bird Road and the Palmetto Expressway in Southwest Dade Miami part of metropolitan Miami, Florida and what is now Olympia Heights.
The race track was built by Bill Dwyer, a prohibition era bootlegger, and Frank Bruen with backing from Canadian distilling tycoon, Samuel Bronfman.
Tropical Park introduced the first synthetic racetrack surface for horse racing in the 1966-67 season.
Saul Silberman bought Tropical Park in 1953 after president Henry L. Straus died in a plane crash.
When Silberman died in 1971, new owner William L. McKnight made his intentions known.