hippodrome

DEF: Terrain de sport hippique; champ de courses.
CONT: L'hippodrome d'Auteuil, de Longchamp [...] Les tribunes, la piste, la pelouse, le pesage d'un hippodrome.

OBS: A racetrack includes the racing track, viewing stands, etc.; to mean ""the place where races are held"", the use of the one-word terms is preferable. Because these terms also mean ""a track or a course on which races with horses or vehicles are run"", one must thus distinguish between the racetrack or race track, the whole, with the race or racing track, a part of the whole.