If I were to make a one mile ractrack like the Kentucky racetrack about how much land/acres ould that take up?

Question

this means exactly like the turns and stuff,not it being straight

Answer 1

Here is the requirement for a 1 mile track like Churchill Downs, that being without any chutes, it takes 60 acres, you can also "google" google earth, and find at Lexington Kentucky, at the famous "Red Mile" harness track there is a practice or warm-up track being a full one half mile track, in the infield, which to construct a half mile takes 10 acres, and a small track in Henderson Ky. once known as Audubon Raceway, did on several occassions conduct T-Breds, running on a half mile track and it had  chutes for the t-breds preference for odd distance races as 98% of harness races are always at one mile. At Audubon the track was wide enough to start up to 14 t-breds. intrestingly enough also is the fact that just up the road is Ellis Park, which is laid out just like Belmont, meaning that they are the only two tracks where a race of 1 mile ( 8 furlongs) can be contested where the horses only run ONE turn.

Years ago the harness / t-breds would alternate between  Detriot Race Course  which is also a mile track and Hazel Park, which is a 5/8th.which consume about 38 acres.

the t-bred track in Columbus,  Ohio which is called either beulah  park or darby downs, has its dirt track, with a turf track insde of course, and most interestingly a 5/8th track where 2 harness meets were contested many many years ago.

And if either sport seeks out speed distilled to its purest level other than a conplete straight away, then you would be interested that there where 2 "kite" tracks build, which allowed for either t-breds or harness to start and have a full quarter mile before the turn, which comprised the next 4 furlong or 2nd quarter and 3 quarter miles, very small radii, hence great speed, wherin the horses would enter another full straight away, with the finish line was at the end or nearly of the Grandstand. "kite " perhaps does not describe, as accurately as "sno-cone" or dradle ( top ).

and in the keystone state of Pennsylvannia there where 1/3 rd of a mile tracks that harness horses use to contest their races with 3 times around

Answer 2

Churchill Downs sits on 147 acres of land.