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Miami, Hialeah Parading to the Post (Florida)
Unused Curteichcolor card 3C-K969, some slight mottling on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Kentucky Derby (USA)
It is the greatest coincidence that we are entering this card on the date of the Derby–but we won’t charge extra for that. Mailed in 2013 with two stamps and large red postmark. Grade: 1
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Racing Scene (H. Aiken)
The painting was in The Bridgeman Art Library in London; the card was mailed from Netherlands in 2013 with stamp and three extra red chop marks. Grade: 4
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Black Caviar (Maximum Card) (Australia)
If a Maximum Card is going to be mailed, this is about as good as the condition can be these days. Mailed in 2013 with (additional) postmark over the pre-printed postage on the reverse. Orange postal barcoding on the front. Grade: 2
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Horse race (DPR Korea)
We might have given a different caption than the card does (경마 / Horse race) but it’s not far off. Unused card, pre-printed postage of various London 2012 Olympics events and logo. Grade: 1
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Santiago, Club Hipico (Chile)
Unused, vintage real-photo card. Grade: 1
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Villa de Leyva – “Mian square, horse track, buganviles” (Colombia)
Unused Bechara card GOR 191. Grade: 1
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Dade Park Race Track (Henderson, Kentucky, USA)
Mailed in 1952, with stamp and postmark, the card predates the change of this facility’s name to Ellis Park Race Course. Grade: 1
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Thoroughbreds Racing in Kentucky (USA)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Sporting Barbados
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card. Grade: 1
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Early Day Oklahoma (USA)
Unmailed, with stains and writing in and near the stamp area. The caption describes this as “One of the history’s greatest photographs, the beginning of the race into the Cherokee Strip…” Grade: 4
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Old Shanghai 1940s (set of eight)
We’re showing you the front and back of the glossy cardboard cover for this set of unused cards. It gives you the idea of what’s inside, including trolley, racetrack, and so on. Please note these are contemporary cards, not made in the 1940s. Grade: 1
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Miami, Hialeah Race Track, Club House and Race Track (Florida)
Linen card mailed in 1943, with stamp and full Miami postmark. Grade: 2
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Lexington Trots Night (Kentucky, USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 5DK-1479. It’s the “Big Red Mile”. Grade: 1
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Happy Valley, Causeway Bay & the harbour from “the Summit” (Hong Kong)
In the case of this unused 5-1/8″ x 7″ card, “the Summit” isn’t “The Peak,” it’s a block of flats. It’s a good view of one of Hong Kong’s two large horse racing tracks. Grade: 1
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Pawtucket, Narragansett Race Track (Rhode Island, USA)
Mailed in 1958, this Curteich-Chicago linen card 6A-H570 has a three-cent stamp, postmark, and some postal ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3
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Harlingen, Valley Greyhound Park (Texas, USA)
Before you scream at us, yes, we know greyhounds are not horses. But this card is so close! Unused. There can’t be too many greyhound tracks left in the world. Macau says they will close theirs, soon. We’ll believe that when we see it. Grade: 1
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Ruidoso Downs (New Mexico, USA)
Among the many New Mexico postcards of Native American lore, here’s something more contemporary–well, slightly more–of “America’s fastest growing track”. Mailed in 1981, with 12-cent stamp and postmark. Petley card 58133-C, with serrated edges. Grade: 1
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Citation (USA)
Looking for a Citation postcard? Here you go. Kentucky Derby winner in 1948 who went on to become the eighth winner of the Triple Crown. Unused E.C. Kropp card 12009N – K85. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Rhode Island (USA)
Unused card with a few statistics in the caption. The racing gear is just below the word “Island”. Grade: 1
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Hialeah Race Course, Widener (Miami, Florida)
Looks like this linen horse racing postcard DC-134 of the “Thrilling Finish of the Fifty Thousand Dollar Widener” was mailed in 1949 or 1948, with postmark and stamp. There’s a splotch of age staining on the reverse. The Widener Challenge Cup Handicap was first run in 1936, and after a bumpy ride (so to speak) wound up in 2001 when Hialeah itself was closed. Grade: 3
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Churchill Downs (Kentucky, USA)
Unused card with “Greetings from Kentucky” on the back. Someone has written a 1987 date in small letters in the postage area. Grade: 3
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Oaklawn Race Track, Hot Sprinfgs (Arkansas, USA)
“One of the nation’s finest tracks” … “Where the World Bathes and Plays”. Unused Dexter Press racetrack postcard 89543-C (207). Mild aging. Grade: 1
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Keeneland Race Course, Lexington (Kentucky, USA)
Unused card showing “one of the world’s premier thoroughbred tracks”. Grade: 1
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Delaware Park Race Track, Wilmington (Delaware, USA)
Unused. Grade: 1
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Citation (Lexington, Kentucky, USA)
Unused linen Curteich-Chicago C.T. Art-Colortone card 9B-H1487 (KE-25), issued in late 1951 or soon after, and showing one of the most famous racehorses of all time. Grade: 1
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Brad Len
Among American Quarter Horse Racing Champions, Brad Len indeed was one: in 1967, the 3-Year-Old Gelding category; then again in 1968, as Aged Gelding (poor guy). This unused ad card would have served some purpose, but if he was a gelding, it wouldn’t have been stud, would it? We don’t know how that works, but we do know the few other sources selling this card are pricing it a lot higher than we do. Grade: 1
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Santa Anita Park, Arcadia (California, USA)
Unused older card (as you can see from the lack of buildings), bringing back memories of running bets there — sometimes placing them, sometimes not. We’re still here. Grade: 1
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Ciudad Juarez, Race Course (Mexico)
Mailed in Mexico in 1924, this card is OK on the front. The stamp and therefore nearly all the postmark are missing. Grade: 4
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Keeneland Race Course, Lexington (Kentucky, USA)
Unused “local” card. Grade: 1
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Sporting Ireland (Republic of Ireland)
Unused John Hinde card 2/1302, focusing on the Irish Hospitals’ Sweeps and the Irish Sweeps Derby. Grade: 1
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Miami, Greyhound Racing (Florida, USA)
Unused, linen, Curteich-Chicago card 0C-H1221 (DC-173). All right, we know, it’s not horse racing but sometimes we need to stretch the boundaries a little. Grade: 1
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Mount Pleasant, Fairfield County Race Track and Fairgrounds (Ohio, USA)
Unused card with this bird’s-eye view of Lancaster/Mt. Pleasant’s race track, which we guess is mostly (or only?) used for harness racing and not to be confused with many other race tracks also called Lancaster. Anyway, the card makes it clear which one this is. Grade: 1
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Louisville, Churchill Downs (Kentucky, USA)
Home of the Kentucky Derby, and presented on a card mailed in 1978 with two stamps and nearly full postmark. Grade: 1
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Saratoga Springs, Saratoga Track (New York, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card D6232 (56194-B), serrated edges, showing “one of America’s oldest racing centers”. Grade: 1
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Brooklyn, Sheepshead Bay (New York, USA)
“One of the most beautiful racing tracks in America” according to the caption on this unused card. We would like to let Wikipedia tell its (edited) story: “Sheepshead Bay Race Track opened in 1880 … the track would continue to operate as a horse-racing course until 1910 when horse betting was criminalized in New York state. Afterward it operated as an auto racing track from 1915 to 1919. The decline of the Sheepshead Bay Race Track, along with the construction of amusement parks at nearby Coney Island, led to the decline of Sheepshead Bay as a tourist destination. Passenger rail service on the Manhattan Beach Branch ceased in 1924, the line was formally abandoned in 1937, and the former race track site was subdivided for the construction of housing.” So, not beautiful enough. The card is, though. Grade: 1
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Hong Kong Jockey Club – Millennium Celebration
Unused card, 4-7/8″ x 7-1/8″, from 2002, of the event at Happy Valley Racecourse. Grade: 1