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Unlike other racing jurisdictions, at
Camarero Race Track, races are held Five Days a week, all year long,
representing approximately 260 days annually. Local horse racing
generates more than $250 million a year in wagers. Camarero Race
Track Corporation has 700 off-track betting agencies located all
over the island.

The Post-Time for the first race is at
2:45 p.m. (local Puerto Rico Time) meeting Mondays, Wednesdays,
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Total races per day are between
seven and nine. The types of bets made at Camarero Race Track are
Win, Place, the "Exacta", Daily Double, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pick
Six and Pick Three.
The schedule includes races for native
(born in Puerto Rico) and imported (born outside of Puerto Rico)
horses, divided between claiming races, races for non-claiming
horses, "allowances" and "Stakes Races".
The annual horse race schedule includes
over a fifty stakes races, representing more than $24 millions in
prizes for horse owners.

Among the most important events are the
TRIPLE CROWN - three year-old native horses - which is held on the
same dates as the Trple Crown in the United States. The "Serie
Hípica del Caribe" is composed of five international races, among
others the Copa Confraternidad and the Clásico del Caribe, with the
participation of horses born in countries members of the
Confederación Hípica del Caribe such as Panamá, Venezuela, Trinidad
& Tobago, México, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Puerto Rico, being
the permanent host for these events. The latter event has been
broadcasted through ESPN and its stations on a yearly basis, given
its popularity through out the racing industry. Together, with other
news reporters from Central, South and Latin America, ESPN takes
coverage of this breathtakingly emotional event through out the
United States, the Caribbean and all Latin America.

The "Serie Hípica del Caribe" has been
so successful in the past years that the "Confederación Hípica del
Caribe" and the horse racing authorities in Puerto Rico, together
with tourism and economic government authorities in Puerto Rico, are
working on expanding the number of races held in order to develop a
Latin version of the "Breeder's Cup". |