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General Custer raced his own horses at the inaugural meet, a Russian grand duke watched from the stands, and Degas - whose family lived nearby - sketched the scenes. The Fair Grounds Race Course, at 1751 Gentilly Boulevard in New Orleans, ran its first card under the Louisiana Jockey Club on 13 April 1872 and is the second-oldest continuously operating racetrack in America. The racing history reaches even further: horses ran on the 145-acre Gentilly site from 1852 as the Union and later Creole ...