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Hipódromo de la Castellana

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in 1912. The Hipódromo was by no means perfect. 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
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With the widening of Paseo de la Castellana in the 1930s, the Hipódromo was closed and then demolished. The site, now occupied by the office buildings of
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in the semi-finals of the Copa de la Coronación on 13 May 1902, which ended in a 3–1 for Barcelona.
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The main horse racing venue for Madrid, since the mid-twentieth century, has been the
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in the city. The Hipódromo was inaguruated to celebrate the wedding of King
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El regalo de bodas a los reyes que disfrutó toda la alta sociedad madrileña
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During that period, the Hipódromo de Madrid hosted three finals of the
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in 1878. In successive years, the venue also hosted
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Estadio del Hipódromo

Madrid
Spain
sports facility
horse racing
Paseo de la Castellana
Madrid
Spain
horse racing tracks
Alfonso XII
football
Copa del Rey
Nuevos Ministerios
Hippodrome de la Zarzuela
Real Madrid CF
Campo de O'Donnell
fertilizer
tetanus
Spanish Cup
1903
1906
1907
1902 Copa de la Coronación
El Clásico
FC Barcelona
1902 Copa de la Coronación Final
Alfonso XIII
Copa del Rey
1903 Copa del Rey Final

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