As you all well know the battle to save the longest continually operating racetrack in California was lost, and for what ????????Read more in Blog "Bay Meadows Property Update"......2600 S Delaware St
San Mateo, CA 94403
(650) 573-4500
www.baymeadows.com (DON'T Bother checking out the website, they stole that along with our track...
***The Rotten Creeps even STOLE THIER Web-Site*** The decent thing do have done would at least to have turned it into a Memories Page ~ Talk about "adding insult to injury"!!!
Bay Meadows was a horse racing track in San Mateo, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States.BAY MEADOWSOne of the most traditional and innovative racetracks in the country, this Thoroughbred racetack also is the longest continually operating racetrack in California....
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The video is owned and copyrighted by the Historical Association, which is selling copies for $25. Call 650-299-0104 to order.THIS PAGE WAS CREATED ON BEHALF OF The Save Bay Meadows Citizens Group (and because I personally believe with all my heart in their cause....It is a grassroots organization started by San Mateo residents who believe a change of use for the 83 acre Bay Meadows land to a dense commercial development will not only result in the loss of yet another social/recreational resource and open space, but will severely impact the quality of life in San Mateo and surrounding communities.We wish to preserve San Mateo’s suburban character and diversity consistent with the principles of Measure H - a 'grass roots' initiative authored and adopted by the citizens of San Mateo in the early 1990s to prevent the over-development of our city and to preserve the quality of life and character of our city for future generations.
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The Save Bay Meadows Citizens Group is not associated with the Bay Meadows Racetrack operation.
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Built on the site of an old airfield, Bay Meadows Racecourse is the longest continually operating thoroughbred racetrack in California, having been founded on November 13, 1934. The innovative William P. Kyne introduced pari-mutuel wagering, the popular Daily Double, the first all-enclosed starting gate, the totalizator board and the photo-finish camera at Bay Meadows.The Bay Meadows Handicap is the longest continually run stakes event in California, having been started in 1937. Seabiscuit won this race twice: 1937 and 1938. The track was allowed to remain open during World War II because of its agreement to give 92% of its profits towards the war effort. The track generated more than $4 million for War Relief projects during the war years. Its ability to run during the war accounts for its status as the longest continually operating US racetrack. In 1945, the first racehorse to be transported by plane, El Lobo, was set down in the parking lot.In 1948, the eventual Hall of Fame jockey, Bill Shoemaker, began his career by exercising horses on this track. He won his first stakes race here in 1949.In 1954, Determine won the Bay Meadows Handicap and then went to take the Kentucky Derby.All of the exterior scenes in Stanley Kubrick's 1956 heist movie The Killing were filmed at Bay Meadows. The track was renamed as Landsdowne for the movie, but the Bay Meadows name is visible in at least one early scene of the movie.Wild Again ran at Bay Meadows in 1984 and then went on to win the Breeders' Cup Classic.Bay Meadows' racing season begins in August with the San Mateo County Fair portion of the meet, which runs two weeks. This is followed by a short break of a few days; until recently this break avoided conflict with the first week-and-a-half of the California State Fair horse race meet. Racing picks up again on Labor Day Weekend (or thereabouts) with the main throroughbred meet, which is split into two parts--one in the fall, the other in the spring/early summer (Golden Gate Fields' meet takes place in the interim in the winter/early spring).Throughout its history, Bay Meadows has also hosted harness and quarter horse racing meets, but because of the lack of financial viability these meets currently do not run. Bay Meadows is currently focusing exclusively on thoroughbred racing. Olden Times, Silky Sullivan, Citation, John Henry, Round Table, and Lost in the Fog have raced here.There has been talk within the past decade of demolishing Bay Meadows due to plans of building an entirely new race track near Dixon, California to replace the San Mateo race track. As these plans are still in development, Bay Meadows remains open on a year-by-year case basis, with the exact date of final closure uncertain. The Bay Meadows Phase II Specific Plan Amendment was adopted by the city council of the city of San Mateo on November 7, 2005 [1]. The plan calls for 1.25 million square feet of office space, 1,250 residential units, 150,000 square feet (14,000 m²) of retail space, and 15 acres of public parks, as well as a rebuilt Hillsdale Caltrain station near the site of the old Bay Meadows Caltrain station.On December 1, 2006, jockey Russell Baze won the fourth race to pass Laffit Pincay Jr as the winningest rider in thoroughbred horse racing.
