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Built on the site of an old airfield, Bay Meadows Racecourse was the longest continually operating thoroughbred racetrack in California —having been founded on November 13, 1934—until its closure on August 17, 2008. The innovative William P. Kyne introduced pari-mutuel wagering, the popular daily double, the first all-enclosed starting gate ...
The Derby, revived in 1978 at one and one/sixteenth mile, is a Grade III grass event set at one and one/eighth mile, and offers a purse of $100,000. Bay Meadows Racetrack closed in 2008. There were ten final race dates run in August 2008 for the San Mateo County Fair, with the last official race occurring on August 17, 2008.
Assigned. Purse. $100,000. The El Camino Real Derby is a Listed American Thoroughbred horse race held in February at Golden Gate Fields in Albany, California. The race is open to three-year-olds willing to race one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs) on Tapeta, a synthetic racing surface. Northern California's premier Kentucky Derby prep, the El ...
Golden Gate Fields was an American horse racing track straddling both Albany, California and Berkeley, California along the shoreline of the San Francisco Bay adjacent to the Eastshore Freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area. With the closing of the Bay Meadows racetrack on May 11, 2008, it was the only major Thoroughbred racetrack in Northern ...
Pages in category "Bay Meadows Racetrack" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Until it was closed on December 20, 2005, the Bay Meadows Racetrack was served by the now-removed Bay Meadows stop, slightly less than a half-mile (800 m) north of the original location of the Hillsdale Station. The Bay Meadows stop lacked a passenger shelter, and was basically just an opening in the chain link fencing where riders could access ...
Cigar (April 18, 1990 – October 7, 2014), was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was the 1995 and 1996 American Horse of the Year. He was the first American racehorse racing against top-class competition to win 16 consecutive races since Triple Crown winner Citation did so between 1948 and 1950. His major wins included the 1995 Breeders ...
Tanforan Racetrack, also known as Tanforan Park, was a thoroughbred horse racing facility in San Bruno on the San Francisco Peninsula in California. It operated from November 4, 1899 to 1964. The horse racing track and buildings were constructed to serve a clientele from nearby San Francisco. Between April and October 1942, the racetrack was ...