OTHER RACECOURSES IN TUSCANY
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The Tuscan race season sees horses involved not only at the Pisa Racetrack but at the Firenze, Livorno, Siena, and Grosseto tracks as well.
PISA (San Rossore Racetrack): Races running from October to April.
FIRENZE (Cascine Racetrack): Two race meetings, one in Spring and the other in Autumn.
LIVORNO (Ardenza Racetrack): Two race meetings, one in Summer and the other in Winter.
SIENA (Pian delle Fornaci Racetrack): races in Spring and Autumn.
GROSSETO Casalone Racetrack): all seasons.
 Firenze Cascine
The flat oval racetrack is 1.980 meters long with a 640 meters final stretch and 20 meters wide. Considering the middle circuit the track is 1700 meters long and 1500 meters long if one considers only the smaller circuit. The maximum width of the track reaches 24 meters in correspondence with the bends and the backstretch while the width is 20 meters on the homestretch.
 Livorno Ardenza
The oval shaped sand racetrack is 1.250 metres long and 24 metres wide with a straight stretch of 286 metres. The slope of the straight stretch is 0.6%. The minimum width of the track (12 metres) is present at the south curve. The track has a rocky bottom covered by grass. The racetrack is equipped with 223 boxes.
 Siena Pian delle Fornaci
The oval shaped sand racetrack is 720 metres long and 13 metres wide with a 260 metre long final stretch. The racetrack is equipped with 60 boxes.
 Grosseto Casalone
Two flat courses and one obstacle course The big flat oval shaped grass racetrack is 1.372 metres long and between 22 and 24 metres wide with a straight stretch of 380 metres. The second grass course is 1.320 metres long and 14 metres wide. The grass bottom obstacle course in the form of an eight, is composed of a circular course 1.200 metres long and 22 metres wide and of two double diagonals each about 300 meters long and 20 metres wide. The hurdles and the obstacles are fixed. The racetrack is equipped with 350 boxes.
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