Golden Gate Fields will permanently close after its final racing date later this year at the San Francisco Bay area horse track.
The track's owner, The Stronach Group, said Sunday it will"double down" on its racing at Santa Anita and training at San Luis Rey Downs in Southern California.
Proud 'N' Ready, with Catalino Martinez up, race ahead of the field to win the 8th Race during Summer Races at Golden Gate Fields on Sept. 2, 2018 in Albany.
"The ramifications of this Stronach decision will be far-reaching and long-lasting," Alan Balch, executive director of the California Thoroughbred Trainers, said in a statement."They will include, we believe, a great many unintended and mainly detrimental consequences for all of racing and Thoroughbred breeding throughout California and the West, including in Southern California. We can only hope that we are entirely wrong.
With the start of World War II, the U.S. Navy took over the property for storage of landing craft that was to be used in the Pacific theater. After the war ended, racing returned to the site.
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