Velká Chuchle is part of Prague situated in the southwest of the city. It is part of Praha 16 administrative district.
The district includes Prague-Velká Chuchle Racecourse, Prague's only horse-racing track, offering flat racing on most Sundays from April to October. The track was founded in 1906.
This horse - racing track ("Hippodroma") was very often visited by the first Czechoslovak president Thomas Garrigue Masaryk,[1] and in 1930, the primary school in Velká Chuchle was named after his wife Charlotte.
On a sunny Sunday, September 6, 2020, the 100th "Czechoslovak" (Czech) derby was held at the racecourse. There was also a great defilé of President Masaryk, represented by a race rider and accompanied by four legionnaires, as well as a parade of racewear of the First Republic. Slovak stallion Opasan won the main race of three-year-old horses with jockey Radek Koplík, so the Slovak anthem was played above the racecourse on this festive day.[2]
^PRECLÍK, Vratislav. Masaryk a legie (TGM and legions), váz. kniha, 219 str., vydalo nakladatelství Paris Karviná, Žižkova 2379 (734 01 Karvina-Mizerov) ve spolupráci s Masarykovým demokratickým hnutím (In association with the Masaryk democratic movement in Prague), 2019, ISBN978-80-87173-47-3, page 19 - 25, 27 - 87, 90 - 155, 169