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Ventura Farms, formally known as Deerwood Stock Farm and Kentucky Park Farms, is a historic estate that is located in the Hidden Valley near Thousand Oaks, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Known for being a film location, the 2,200-acre (890 ha) ranch has been featured in a number of Western films and is still used for filming.
Palo Alto Stock Farm Horse Barn, also known as Stanford Red Barn or Stanford Stables, is located at present-day address 621 Fremont Road in Stanford, California. [3] This barn was established c.1878-1880 and is an example of Victorian-era Stick-Eastlake style architecture, though the architect is unknown.
Carondelet Farm is a horse racing operation and breeding farm in Ramona, California near San Diego.The property was named after Carondelet Street in New Orleans.. Carondelet Farm has raced and/or bred a number of Graded and Group Stakes Winners including Champion racehorse Artax who won the 1999 Breeders' Cup Sprint.
The future of horse racing in California is in peril, with Santa Anita at risk of closing. ... Thirty years ago, there were 20 to 25 major farms in California. Now there are just a handful ...
(In addition, the horse racing community was deeply resentful of oil-dripping cars being run on the horse-oriented dirt racing surface.) There was a temporary auto-racing circuit held in the race track parking lot during the mid-1960s and between 1987 and 1992. The latter hosted an IMSA Camel GT race. Both circuits were 1.600 mi (2.575 km) long ...
During a committee meeting of the California Horse Racing Board in August 2023, the Thoroughbred Owners of California proposed a plan to keep Golden Gate Fields open until the following summer in an effort to provide short-term continuity for thoroughbred racing in the region.
Los Alamitos Race Course is a horse racing track in Cypress, California. [1] The track hosts both thoroughbred and quarter horse racing.The track has the distinction of holding four quarter horse stakes races with purses over $1 million, more than any other track in the United States. [2]
The Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, California is a one-mile (1.6 km / 8-f) race track for Thoroughbred, Quarter horse and Arabian racing. [1] Constructed in 1858 by the sons of Spaniard Don Agustín Bernal, it is the third-oldest horse racing track of its kind in the United States.