Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: Arcadia (Calif.) / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Spectators on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
Date:: December 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Spectators holding umbrellas on a rainy Derby Day at Santa Anita Park. 33,000 spectators came out to watch California-bred Sweepida win the $50,000 Derby.
Date:: February 22, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Spectators holding umbrellas on a rainy Derby Day at Santa Anita Park. 33,000 spectators came out to watch California-bred Sweepida win the $50,000 Derby.
Date:: February 22, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Two men crouched on the ground reading the race listings on a rainy Derby Day at Santa Anita Park. 33,000 spectators came out to watch California-bred Sweepida win the $50,000 Derby.
Date:: February 22, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Tom Gwynee, sports writer for Copley Press Newspapers. Copley Press was a privately held newspaper business based in La Jolla, California.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Crowd at a $50,000 Derby day at the Santa Anita racetrack on February 22, 1937. The crowd in attendance was estimated at 45,000 spectators. Twenty-three horses raced that day, beating out the Kentucky Derby's record of twenty-two starting horses at that time. The $50,000 purse was won by the horse Fairy Hill.
Date:: February 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Sportswriters Lee Owen, Bob Herbert from the Los Angeles Evening News and Oscar Otis from the Los Angeles Times at Santa Anita Racetrack
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Sportswriters J.J. Murphy, Maurice Bernard from the Los Angeles Examiner and Bil Amis from the Pasadena Star News at Santa Anita Racetrack
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Sportswriters Jack McDonald from the Herald Examiner and the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, Paul Lowry from the Los Angeles Times and Tom Laird from San Francisco News at Santa Anita Racetrack
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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