Zeidler Miklós: Sporting Spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)
to be pulled down in 1957 because of the life-threatening danger it supposedly posed. Full restoration of the terraces to their original condition was not carried out until 1979. Gallop and sleighing races as well as trotting events were held here, while the neighbouring National Manége was often used as the venue of show-jumping, dressage and modern pentathlon riding events. Today the future of the Trotting Course is uncertain. In all likelihood, the trotters will once again be moved out of their home. A shopping centre is planned to be built on the site of the former Tattersall. Kincsem park (No. 6 Albertirsai út, district X) Opened in 1827, Széchenyi’s Ferencváros horse racing course continually grew in popularity with more and more people being attracted to the races and considerable sums changing hands in the bets. But the course, lying at an inconvenient distance from the city, could hardly meet every requirement. The stench of the nearby farms, the construction of the railway line and the Ferencváros shunting yard in its vicinity did no good to the prestige of the racing course. No wonder that the Hungarian Horse Sports Association did not hesitate much when it had an opportunity to lease a land of the required size near the City Park. The new course on Csömöri (today Thököly) út, which took up the entire area of what is now the People’s Kincsem Park 31
