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One of the piles of debris left over after demolition of the Bay Meadows racetrack. Taken from a passing Caltrain train in March 2009.. After the track failed to acquire a two-year extension of the deadline to replace its dirt oval with an artificial surface for the safety of the horses from the California Horse Racing Board, it was announced that Bay Meadows intended to close November 4, 2006 ...
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 ...
The event was held at the defunct Bay Meadows Racetrack between 2001 and 2005 and was renamed during that period as the Seabiscuit Handicap and Seabiscuit Breeders' Cup Handicap. [2] In 2006 the race was returned to Golden Gate Fields and in 2007 the synthetic All Weather track called Tapeta was installed at the track. [3]
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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 Camino Real Derby was first run in 1982. It was hosted by Bay Meadows racetrack until its closing in August 2008.
Bay County commissioner voted Tuesday to change the zoning of the Meadows Golf Course in Bay Point to allow for the possibility of more homes.
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Bay Meadows Racetrack: 1.000-mile dirt oval San Mateo, California: 1954–1956 Conducted final horse race in August 2008; subsequently razed. [13] Now a housing development. Birmingham International Raceway: 0.500-mile dirt oval Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham 200 (1965) 1958 1961 1963–1965 1967–1968 Track demolished in 2009 by city.