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A current member of the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB), [1] he served as chairman of the CHRB for the years 2004, 2005 and 2009, [2] and is a former director of the Thoroughbred Owners of California. Harris has been a member of The Jockey Club since 1988. [3]
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.
A 100-mile AAA championship Indianapolis-type car race was held at Del Mar in November 1949, but the death of popular local driver Rex Mays in that event caused "big car" racing to disappear from Southern California circuits for 18 years. (In addition, the horse racing community was deeply resentful of oil-dripping cars being run on the horse ...
Binglin Stable in Moorpark, Ventura County, California, was a stock farm established during the latter part of the 1930s to race and breed Thoroughbred horses. The stable was owned by entertainer Bing Crosby and close friend, Lindsay Howard.
Calumet Farm is a 762-acre (3.08 km 2) Thoroughbred breeding and training farm established in 1924 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States by William Monroe Wright, founding owner of the Calumet Baking Powder Company.
Jockey Tiago Pereira guides Katonah to a win in the Grade II $200,000 San Pasqual Stakes horse race on Jan. 25 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia.
The Thoroughbred Corporation is a Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding operation established in 1994 by principal partner Prince Ahmed bin Salman of the Saudi Arabian royal family. It was based at an 18-acre (73,000 m 2 ) facility at Bradbury Estates, in Bradbury, California .
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.