Closure
Financial difficulties during the Great Depression forced Latonia Race Track to close its doors with its last race card held on July 29, 1939. The facility was sold to Standard Oil of Ohio and dismantled during World War II. Today the property is the site of the Latonia Shopping Center.
In 1959, a new operation called the Latonia Race Course opened in Florence, Kentucky about 10 miles south of the original Latonia site. In 1986 that facility changed its name to Turfway Park.
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