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Sponsor: Wyścigi konne. Wrocław
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Designed by R. Jurgens from Hamburg. Put into operation in 1907, in 75th anniversary of existence of Silesian Union of Horse Breeders and Horse Racing.
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Within the racing season 2011, Partynice in Wrocław was visited by 18,000 racing spectators. This year, 2022, the public in number 21,000 came only on one day, Opening of the Season. These numbers illustrate what has occurred for these years.
The latest history of Partynice in Wrocław started on 01 September 2013. It was a day of reactivation of Partynice Racecourse in Wrocław.
Two years before, in 2011, the City Council adopted a resolution on combination of two budgetary units of the city: Partynice Racecourse in Wrocław and Youth Sport Centre. So, on 01 January 2012, Sport, Horse Riding and Leisure Centre in Wrocław. It had been acting only for little longer than one and a half of year.
Then, my experience with the race track in Wrocław started. Before, I was a journalist, a chief editor of “Gazeta Wyborcza” in Szczecin and Wrocław, with a break for a one year’s job as a sub-editor of the metropolitan edition of “Gazeta Wyborcza”. But farther back, that is from always, I was a horseman.
I won a contest and became a chief of the Race Track, with my concept chatted away with racing and equestrian circles, and I implement it – with some corrections resulting from a variable external situation (a ruling party PiS, a pandemic, an inflation, a war) – with a team of people addicted to the business.
There were three basic assumptions: 1. a European Racecourse, 2. a professional leisure, 3. a base for modern trainings.
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Author: Jerzy Sawka, a director of Partynice Racecourse in Wrocław
Below you will find links to related materials in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library.
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„Partynice – Miasto Koni” (2022) – Jerzy Sawka
„Dlaczego ludzie nie zsiądą z koni” (2022) – Jerzy Sawka
„Wyścigi Konne Wrocław – Otwarcie Sezonu Wyścigowego – 03.05.2022”
„Po co nam wyścigi konne, czyli jak głęboko w lesie jesteśmy” (2021) – Jerzy Sawka
„Końska dawka emocji” (2020) – Jerzy Sawka
„100 lat Toru Wyścigów Konnych Wrocław” (2007) – Mieczysława Chmielewska
„Jubileuszowe Partynice” (2007) – Małgorzata Szewczyk
„Wrocław-Partynice, wyścigi koni półkrwi w 1990 r.” (1991) – Monika Słowik
„Album des Deutschen Rennsports 1939-1940” [DE] (1940) – Zespół redakcyjny
„Album des Deutschen Rennsports” [DE] (1931) – Zespół redakcyjny
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Mieczysław Mełnicki
One of the best Polish jockeys and trainers. Within his longer than thirty-year career, he won 1663 races.
Gallery:
A picture showing a race in Wrocław in 1855. From Thesi von Werner’s collection. 
The emperor Wilhelm I on the grandstand of the racecourse in Szczytniki in 1882.
Schlessiches Verein für Pferdezucht und Pferderennen 1832-1907, Breslau 1907.
A site plan of a part of Partynice Race Track under design 1906, Building Archive. Architecture Museum in Wrocław. 
On 05 July 1907, the hippodrome called Rennbahn Breslau-Süd was opened solemnly. Its architect, R. Juergens from Hamburg, designed it in imitation of English race tracks in Ascot or Goodwood. 
A winning-chair at Partynice Racecourse, 1907 r.
Schlesisches Verein fur Pferdezucht und Pferderennen 1832-1907. Breslau 1907.
A plan of Partynice Racecourse, 1914. 
Partynice Race Track. A postcard of 1916. 
A grandstand at the racecourse in Bremen, a photo of about 1940. Das deutsche Reiterbuch, Berlin 1942. 
A grandstand at the racecourse in Manheim, about 1940. Das deutsche Rei ter buch, Berlin 1942. 
An international meeting 1969. Photo: Tadeusz Drankowski (Ossolineum collection). 
Spectators visiting the track in great number, the sixties. Photo: Tadeusz Drankowski (Ossolineum collection). 
International race finish. 1969. Photo: Tadeusz Drankowski (Ossolineum collection). 
Breeder Bogdan Kuchejda receiving an award from Andrzej Łoś, a vice-president of Wrocław.
Photo: Jarosław Zalewski.
Inhabitants of Wrocław visit the racecourse more and more often, not only during racing. Photo: Jarosław Zalewski. 
Inauguration of a season by a president Rafał Dutkiewicz. Photo: Edward Dubicki. 
Inauguration of a riding school by a president Bogdan Zdrojewski. Photo: Edward Dubicki. 
Kamila Schmidt (a wife of a former racecourse manager and Prof. Andrzej Modrakowski. Photo: Edward Dubicki. 
From left: Tadesz Sieradzki (the victorious horse owner), a jockey with his son, a horse trainer Robert Świątek
and Jerzy Sawka (a director of the racecourse 'Wyścigi Konne. Wrocław’).
Jerzy Sawka, a director of the racecourse 'Wyścigi Konne. Wrocław’. 
Jerzy Sawka, a director of the racecourse 'Wyścigi Konne. Wrocław’. 
A sculpture ‘Victory’ symbolizing a unity of a horse and a jockey, by Jerzy Bokrzycki.
The sculpture owned by BoberTeam is in deposit of the racecourse ‘Wyścigi Konne. Wrocław’.
’Wyścigi konne. Wrocław’ is a place of rest, leisure and racing sport. 
A photo from the archive of ‘Wyścigi Konne. Wrocław’.