Resource Type: still image / Location: Arcadia (Calif.) / Subject: Entertainment and Horses--California--Arcadia - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: Horses race out of the gate 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

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