First horse race

The first horse recorded horse race came on a racecourse built over the Salisbury Plain in present-day Long Island, New York – just south of the New Hyde Park train station.

Continuing the tradition of a "Cup" award to the winner, the Long Island race recorded the first winner received a silver porringer (a type of porridge dish produced in the colonies.) The Newmarket race was the first on the continent, joined later as the sport evolved by other notable ones, like the annual thoroughbred derby in Kentucky.