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Despite announcing that Golden Gate Fields was closing at the end of the year, the Stronach Group has agreed to keep the horse racing track open another six months, into the middle of 2024.. Aidan ...
Among the horses that competed at Golden Gate Fields was 1948 Triple Crown winner Citation, John Henry, Shared Belief, and come-from-behind specialist Silky Sullivan, who is buried in the track's ...
The Silky Sullivan Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run each year (until recently in March, then on November 5, and now in April) at Golden Gate Fields in the San Francisco Bay Area. Named for the "Heart Attack Horse," the great closer Silky Sullivan , the race was a mile and an eighth, or 9 furlong Grade III turf race——run ...
After 83 years, Sunday is the last day of racing at Golden Gate Fields. The track will be missed for its inclusiveness and place in California racing history.
The California Derby is a race for Thoroughbred horses held early in the year at Golden Gate Fields. An ungraded stakes, it is open to three-year-olds at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on a Tapeta surface. The Derby offers a purse of $100,000.
With the creation of a new turf track at Golden Gate Fields in 1972 the event was scheduled on the grass. [5] The event was held on the turf for 6 years. During this the Argentine-bred import Yvetot won the event twice in 1973 and 1974. [4] In 1978 the event was moved back to the dirt track and scheduled in February over a mile in distance. [6]
Golden Gate Fields' facilities included a one-mile (1,609 m) synthetic track and a turf course measuring 9/10 of a mile, or 7 furlongs plus 132 feet (1,448 m), stalls for 1,420 horses, a main grandstand with seating for about 8,000 customers, a clubhouse with seating for about 5,200 customers, a Turf Club with seating for about 1,500 customers ...
The 2024 Preakness Stakes, the second jewel of the Triple Crown, will be run Saturday, with Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan expected to run.