Turfway Park is a horse racing track located in Florence, in northern Kentucky, near Cincinnati. The track was opened in 1959 as "Latonia Race Course," not far from the original Latonia Race Track in Covington, Kentucky which hosted thoroughbred racing from 1883 to 1939. The track's name was changed to Turfway Park in 1987 under owner Jerry Carroll. In 2005, Turfway Park became the first American track to install the new Polytrack synthetic racing surface. In late 2019 Churchill Downs Inc agreed to purchase Turfway Park and install over $100 million of improvements.
