Genre: news photographs / Resource Type: still image / Location: Arcadia (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: [1938 or 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Crowd at Derby Day at the Santa Anita racetrack, February 22, 1937.
Date:: February 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A large crowd gathers for the horse races at Santa Anita Park.
Date:: [between 1934 and 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: "Dear Diary," "Morning Breeze" and "Hasten Henry" cross the finish line in the California Breeders' Stakes race at Santa Anita Park. Grandstand spectators watch in the foreground with cameramen in front of the white railing as the horses pass the tote board (totalisator) in the background.
Date:: December 31, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Animals - Race Horses - Tracks - Santa Anita - Around the Paddock.
Date:: February 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A cropped version of this image appears in the photo spread titled, "Smart Set of Southland Turns Out for Opening Day of Races at Santa Anita," Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 1935: A13
Date:: December 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Distant view across open land towards Santa Anita Park with the San Gabriel Mountains in the distance.
Date:: January 3, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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