The track was completed and opened in November 1941 and immediately saw success with Shut Out winning the 1942 Kentucky Derby. The track construction costs were $52,000, which in today’s dollars would have cost $862,889 according to Consumer Price Index Conversion Factors. The track was 1 mile in length the chute was an eighth of a mile “Horine turns” (flattened curves) were installed the stretch was 70 feet wide with 60-foot-wide turns and back side and a steeplechase course in the infield. The track was modeled after the Keeneland Track of Lexington, Ky. Ira Coward was named the superintendent of labor. Frank Phelps, of Lexington, Ky., laid out and supervised the building of the track.
Post was named the supervisor of the Aiken Training Track. The Aiken Training Track officially received its charter on May 6, 1941, and Fred H. Wood would file a written declaration with the Secretary of State of South Carolina requesting the issue of a charter for the Aiken Training Track. Notice was given in the April 30, 1941, edition of the Aiken Standard and Review that Devereux Milburn, F.
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