Connaught Park Racetrack

Connaught Park Racetrack
Hippodrome d'Aylmer
Samuel-Stewart House, late jockey club on the racetrack site.
Location788 Aylmer Road, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Owned byTommy Gorman
Date openedThoroughbreds: June 14, 1913
Standardbreds: 1953
Date closed
  • Thoroughbreds: July 5, 1954
  • Standardbreds: 2008
Course typeFlat Thoroughbred (1 mile (1.6 km))
Harness (1/2 mi.)
Infield: Steeplechase

Connaught Park, later known as Hippodrome d'Aylmer, was a thoroughbred, steeplechase and harness racing track, later having a casino and live betting parlor, that operated from 1913 until 2009. The track was located in the Aylmer, Quebec district of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, near Ottawa, Ontario. It had two tracks: a one-mile dirt track used until 1954 for thoroughbred racing, and a half-mile dirt track, used for harness racing. Racing ended in 2008 after its owner declared bankruptcy. The site was sold in 2009 for a housing development.

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