DEVELOPING: It’s the end of an era for Northern California horse racing. Golden Gate Fields will permanently close after its final racing date later this year.
The company said it would work with industry groups in California, as well as Los Alamitos racetrack in Orange County and Del Mar north of San Diego in relocating horses and employees to Southern California.
Scott Chaney, executive director of the California Horse Racing Board, noted that Golden Gate Fields has been racing nine months out of the year and the board will begin discussing allocating those racing dates in August for 2024. 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.
The track was immortalized in book and movie form. In Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel “On the Road,” Sal Paradise visits the track with his friend, who loses all their money.
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