What you can see on the Camarero stream
This is not a fixed webcam but the racetrack's own TV feed. It carries the races run at Camarero and, between them, the betting boards with the odds, including those of races simulcast from other tracks. It runs from early afternoon into the evening, Puerto Rico time.
The racetrack's own TV feed
Unlike the other cameras on this site, this one is a produced broadcast. Hipódromo Camarero puts its racing on YouTube, on the official channel that its own website points to. Each day the feed lasts several hours: every race run on the track and, in the gaps, the betting screens, which also list races beamed in from elsewhere.
The track also uploads each race separately to the same channel afterwards. When the feed is off the air, the player shows when the next broadcast starts and offers the latest one, recorded.
Camarero, the horse behind the name
The track is named after a Puerto Rican-bred thoroughbred who won 56 races in a row between April 1953 and August 1955, still the world record for consecutive wins by a thoroughbred. Camarero also took the first Puerto Rican Triple Crown, in 1954, and in 1958 became the first member of the island's racing Hall of Fame.
From El Comandante to Camarero
Racing on the island goes back a long way: the track's own history places the first racecourse in Ponce in 1882. The famous El Comandante racetrack opened in neighboring Carolina in 1957, and on 31 October 1976 its replacement opened here as El Nuevo Comandante. It took Camarero's name in 2006, and Camarero Race Track Corporation has run it since January 2007. After Hurricane María it was renovated and reopened in December 2021.
The Clásico Internacional del Caribe, the region's great race, was first run at El Comandante in 1966 and has been held on this track several times. Riders such as Ángel Cordero Jr. and John Velázquez started out at El Comandante, and Kentucky Derby winner Bold Forbes raced here too.
When to watch Camarero
The broadcast runs for several hours, one race after another. The schedule on this page gives its start in Puerto Rico time and in your own, and the track publishes each day's program on its official website.
Nearby
Canóvanas itself, nicknamed the City of the Races, is a short drive away. Loíza, about eight kilometers north, is the heart of Afro-Puerto Rican culture and the home of bomba music, and beyond it lies the mangrove coast of Piñones.
Getting there
The track is about 25 minutes by car from the Isla Verde hotel district. Canóvanas only became a municipality of its own in 1970, after more than four centuries as part of Loíza.
