Jockey Club do Paraná, Horse racing venue in Curitiba, Brazil.
Jockey Club do Paraná is the body that runs horse racing in Paraná, headquartered since 1955 on Avenida Victor Ferreira do Amaral in the Tarumã district of Curitiba. Its earlier Guabirotuba track, known as Prado Velho, kept a large grandstand built for Curitiba's upper-class spectators; that tribune now houses the PUCPR University Museum, open since 1984.
The club was established to develop organized horse racing in southern Brazil and has grown into a major center for equestrian sport. Its creation reflected the region's growing interest in competitive racing during that period.
The Guabirotuba track, now Prado Velho, hosted Curitiba's first major football match in 1909, when Coritiba Foot Ball Club played English railway builders from Ponta Grossa on the Jockey's grass. The first aeroplane flight and landing in the city took place on the same grass in 1914. Miss Paraná appeared at the Dr Benjamin Pessoa prize in June 1919, and Marta Rocha attended the G.P. Paraná in 1954, the last big event there.
The current headquarters sits on Avenida Victor Ferreira do Amaral in the Tarumã district, where the club moved in 1955. The old Guabirotuba grandstand in Prado Velho is now the PUCPR University Museum, open since 1984, so the two sites are visited separately.
The Guabirotuba grandstand, built for Curitiba's upper class, survives as part of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná and has housed the PUCPR University Museum since 1984. The old Prado do Guabirotuba lawn also hosted the city's first football match of a Paraná club, in 1909, and its first airplane landing, in 1914.
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