Zeidler Miklós: Sporting Spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)
virtually all of Hungary’s ice sports championships were held, by now only the country’s speed skaters have stayed here with figure skaters and ice-hockey players having moved to other rinks. Horse-racing facilities on Kerepesi út The Trotting Cogrse (7Vo. 9-11 Kerepesi út, district X) It was at the end of an avenue crossing the border of Budapest, the road called Rákóczi út today, where the Tattersall (or horse market) lay, where the capital’s first trot racing course was built in 1883. (There had been occasional races in earlier times, too, as for example the first galloping event organised in the City Park in spring 1879, where two and three horse carriages were started one after the other to run twice around the lake.) The fairly narrow bends of the Tattersall course- whose 750-metre length was rather shorter than that of similar tracks-necessitated that the curves be slightly tilted. According to contemporary photos and accounts, the wooden grandstand was built in a “pretty Swiss style”. At the end of the century, the failings of the course came to the fore: its narrowness and short span as well as the limited proportions of the terraces were increasingly felt. Fortunately, another course was found, on a flat piece of land called Herminamező at the northern The grandstand of the Trotting Cours on Kerepesi út 29
