Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "race-track".
For instance, in the afternoon of the Fourth of July all the lepers gathered at the race-track for the sports.
There had been, of course, no spectacular drinking bouts, for those would have been automatically responsible for having him banned from the race-tracks of the world: a genius for avoiding company, he just went about it quietly, steadily, persistently and above all secretly, for Harlow always drank alone, almost invariably in out of the way places, usually quite remote, where he stood little or no chance of being discovered.
He got six calls from there inside of twenty minutes, all reporting having seen it in broad daylight, under the race-track stands.