Del Mar opening day joins Comic-Con and Pride parade in a one-week trifecta of San Diego events
Opening day at Del Mar sold out days before fans arrived Friday in their fashionable hats and heard country singer Steven Cade sing Bing Crosby’s track anthem, “Where the Turf Meets the Surf.”
Actress Bo Derek had returned from travel in time to join other board members in the director’s box, Harper reports. For the most part, though, the influx of Hollywood personalities — Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, George Raft, Burt Bacharach, Angie Dickinson, and others — who became familiar faces at the Del Mar track, are revered memories of the past.
Yesterday marked the 12th opening day for Belinda Berry, but this time she had to drive from Tennessee, where she recently moved. She created Nine days after the fireworks — at midnight on July 12 — the stables opened , and 1,800 thoroughbreds began arriving and training. Track management’s comfort level with capping attendance was fueled by the huge increase of off-track betting that grew out of sports lovers being marooned at home in the early days of the pandemic. Professional team sports abruptly halted, but horses don’t get COVID-19.
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