RIP HOLLYWOOD PARK, THE END IS HERE
by Ray Paulick
It was on life support for nearly a decade and ran its last race in December 2013, but Hollywood Park’s 77-year presence on the Southern California and international horse racing landscape has finally come to end. In the last week, demolition crews have begun to tear down a grandstand that stood proud as the host of the inaugural Breeders’ Cup in 1984 and provided a lifetime of memories for racing fans of all ages.
Built by Hollywood moguls and attracting some of the greatest Thoroughbreds (and Standardbreds) in history, along with many of the best-known celebrities the entertainment world has ever known, the Track of Lakes and Flowers changed hands several times over the last 25 years, finally winding up in the hands of developers, the Bay Meadows Land Company, which orchestrated a similar destruction of the Bay Meadows racetrack in San Mateo near San Francisco.
Hollywood Park, photographed May 7, 2015
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