Racing Toward Revival: Eureka Downs Rises Again

For nearly two decades, Eureka Downs has stood quiet. The barns, once alive with the shuffle of hooves and the hum of race-day anticipation, sat weathered and empty. Tornadoes tore through. Vegetation crept across the racing surface. Time did what time does.

But this year, the oldest surviving racetrack west of the Mississippi is stirring again.