The Golden Gate Fields horse racing track near Berkeley is shutting down after its current 2023 season, the company that owns the track announced Sunday.
Three horses over four days in February 2021 have died at Golden Gate Fields in Berkeley, Calif. Horses race at Golden Gate Fields on January 12, 2008. —MANDATORY CREDIT—Golden Gate Fields will permanently close after its final racing date later this year at the San Francisco Bay area horse track.
"The Stronach Group remains steadfastly committed to racing in California," company CEO and president Belinda Stronach said in a statement. The company said it would work with industry groups in California, as well as Los Alamitos racetrack in Orange County and Del Mar north of San Diego in relocating horses and employees to Southern California.
"I am acutely aware of the human impact of the closure — be they CHRB employees, CHRB contractors, licensees, and, of course, Golden Gate employees — and I will be working hard to ameliorate any negative consequences and to create job and role opportunities," Chaney said.Golden Gate Fields, which straddles the cities of Albany and Berkeley along the shore of the San Francisco Bay, opened in 1941.
The track was immortalized in book and movie form. In Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel "On the Road," Sal Paradise visits the track with his friend, who loses all their money.
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