Location: Arcadia (Calif.) / Subject: Horse racing--California--Arcadia - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: January 3, 1936
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:: 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:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: February 22, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View towards the tote board (totalisator) fronted by flower beds at Santa Anita Park. The San Gabriel Mountains are in the background on the right.
Date:: January 3, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to the article: Paul Lowry, "Pompey's Pillar Second and Ariel Cross Third. Time Supply Runs Off With $7500 San Antonio Handicap by Six-Length Margin." Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 1936: A9.
Date:: February 8, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Arnott, Andrew Hugh, 1905-1985
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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

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