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Santa Anita Park race track sold to Frank Stronach, a Canadian billionaire businessman and horse owner. The property is valuable to the city for sales tax reasons.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26451
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 19, 1998
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 19, 1998
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park - 1991-2000
Stronach, Frank
Item ID
26676AN
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Newspaper Index
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Bay Area horse racing track Golden Gate Fields in San Francisco to close permanently later this year. After the Golden Gate Fields meet ends, The Stronach Group said it will focus on moving horses from the Bay Area to Arcadia, with a goal of increasing field sizes and adding a fourth day of racing to the weekly schedule at Santa Anita Park, beginning in January. See hard copy in VF. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 28, July 20, 2023.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36506
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 17, 2023
Pages
p. B6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 17, 2023
Pages
p. B6
Subjects
Golden Gate Fields
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
Stronach, Belinda
Stronach Group
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park, other Stronach tracks to race horses without fans, through the end of March, due to the threat of coronavirus (COVID-19).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35654
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 13, 2020
Pages
p. B9
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 13, 2020
Pages
p. B9
Subjects
Coronavirus-COVID-19
Diseases
Epidemics
Horses and horse racing
Pandemics
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Stronach Group
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Fourth horse dies, from training injury during Santa Anita Park's fall season. The horse was a 4 year-old filly named Star of Africa. She was owned by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and trained by Patrick Gallagher.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 4, 2021
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 4, 2021
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Euthanasia
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
Stronach Group
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park modifiest rack after horse deaths. It is the first significant change in 67 years. Horses running 6 and 6 1/2 furlongs will instead start on a new turf chute under construction at the racetrack's northeast corner, near the Gate 5 entrance. Santa Anita Park will host a short meet September 19-October 25, still without spectators due to the coronavirus. The racing board delayed the start of the meet to give the horses time to rest and to ensure its COVID-19 protocols were in place. County officials recorded 38 coronavirus cases at Santa Anita Park by the end of its previous meet in June.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
California Horse Racing Board
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Moore, Dennis
Pandemics
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Stronach Group
Vella-Gregory, Jodie
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Newspaper Index
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Starting this spring, the new owner of Santa Anita Park, Frank Stronach, is planning the first of what will likely be massive renovations to the horse racing facility.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper16664
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 6, 1999
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 6, 1999
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park
Item ID
17448AN
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Newspaper Index
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Frank Stronach, new owner of Santa Anita Park race track, explained his plans for renovations at the track which include a restaurant and skyboxes.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26942
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 22, 1999
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 22, 1999
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park - 1991-2000
Stronach, Frank
Renovations
Item ID
27141AN
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California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) rebuffs Santa Anita Park, gives Pleasonton thumbs up. Tensions had risen when Craig Fravel, executive vice chairman of 1/ST Racing, which runs Santa Anita Park for the Stronach Group, said in a letter to CHRB members that the Arcadia track might close if Southern California interests don't receive more simulcast wagering revenue, which would have happened if Northern California was denied a major meet.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 22, 2024
Pages
p. B8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 22, 2024
Pages
p. B8
Subjects
1/ST Racing
California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Fravel, Craig
Horses and horse racing
Pleasonton Fairgrounds Racetrack
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
Stronach Group
Collection
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Multibillion dollar businessman and horse owner, Frank Stronach, has signed a letter of intent for his auto systems company, Magna International Inc., to buy Santa Anita Park

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper16086
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 15, 1998
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p. C1 photos
Pasadena Star News
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 15, 1998
Pages
p. C1 photos
Pasadena Star News
Subjects
Santa Anita Park
Item ID
16844AN
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Santa Anita Park will stay closed; Derby to be rescheduled. Santa Anita Park will remain closed for live racing, at least through the upcoming weekend, as a result of last week's order by the Los Angeles County Health Department in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. More than 1700 horses are stabled at Santa Anita Park and are cared for by more than 750 people who live and work at the track. A track press release said, "We will continue to work with county officials and health authorities to familiarize them with the protocols already in place and our plans to protect the health and safety of the community who works with the horses and calls Santa Anita home."

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 1, 2020
Pages
p. B3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 1, 2020
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Barger, Kathryn
Coronavirus-COVID-19
Epidemics
Horses and horse racing
Los Angeles County Department of Health
Pandemics
Stronach Group
Collection
Newspaper Index
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International businessman and horse owner Frank Stronach confirmed Tuesday that he and Meditrust, the parent company of Santa Anita Park, have signed a letter of intent under which he will buy the race track.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 11, 1998
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 11, 1998
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park
Item ID
16845AN
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City officials met with new Santa Anita Park owner Frank Stronach to discuss his plans for the race track. He wants to build a retail and entertainment village and an interactive horse racing theme park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper16191
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 16, 1998
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 16, 1998
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park
Item ID
16937AN
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City Council decided to form an ad hoc committee to study alternatives to requests for increased security at Wilderness Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper119
Newspaper
Star Tribune
Date
August 20, 1992
Pages
p. 3
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Star Tribune
Date
August 20, 1992
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Wilderness Park
Item ID
119AN
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Western Saddlery is a tack shop in Arcadia that has serviced the behind-the-scenes needs of Santa Anita Park's horse trainers, owners and jockeys for more than 40 years.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper11908
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 21, 1998
Pages
p. B3 w / photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 21, 1998
Pages
p. B3 w / photo
Subjects
Business & Industry - Western Saddlery
Item ID
12109AN
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Stuck in the backstretch. At Santa Anita Park racetrack, coronavirus cuts off horse caretakers from the outside world More than 750 backstretch workers at Santa Anita Park now live and work in isolation to prevent the spread of COVID-19. They sleep in worn dormitories, sometimes in pairs, tucked among the barns. New restrictions bar visitors. There is a sense of anxiety in the community about the novel Coronavirus and the future of their jobs. No cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus have been reported at Santa Anita Park, which ceased racing last month, but there isn't any proactive testing either. The worries have to do with the track being shut down, or trainers moving to other states and these workers having nowhere to work or stay. If they lose their jobs, they lose their medical benefits and will be struggling.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35749
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 9, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 9, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Coronavirus-COVID-19
Diseases
Epidemics
Gonzalez, Rafael
Henry, Jason
Horses and horse racing
Lopez, Jayro
Martinez, Erick
Pandemics
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Stronach Group
Viruses
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Santa Anita Park looking for a brighter future. When Aidan Butler, Executive Director of California Racing Operations for The Stronach Group took over at Santa Anita about a year ago, he couldn't have envisioned the road blocks his first year--heavy rains that postponed opening day, the COVID-19 pandemic, recent brush fires that forced the fall meet to be postponed. He discusses the difficulties this year, the new turf chute and the future.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 24, 2020
Pages
p. B6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 24, 2020
Pages
p. B6
Subjects
Butler, Aidan
Fires
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Stronach Group
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Second horse dies in two days at Santa Anita Park racetrack. Barraza, a 4 year-old colt is the second horse to die in two days, after a sesamoid injury Saturday morning during a workout, requiring euthanasia. Four year-old filly named Pray for My Owner died the day before. A total of eight horses have died at Santa Anita Park this year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36242
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 19, 2022
Pages
p. 3
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 19, 2022
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Euthanasia
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
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Newspaper Index
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Le Meridien hotel by Marriott in Arcadia is taking shape. Photo. The site of the former Santa Anita Inn, now razed, is the site for an ambitious new $300 million hotel and mixed-use condominium project opposite the Santa Anita Park racetrack. Contruction has been swift, but delayed a bit this week due to the rain. Developer Chateau Group USA held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the project on June 27, 2018.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 12, 2020
Pages
p. 5
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 12, 2020
Pages
p. 5
Subjects
Le Meridien Hotels
Marriott
Chateau Group
Hotels, Motels, etc.
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Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer defends record despite horse deaths as Santa Anita Park. He is in the first phase of trial in his lawsuits against the owners and operators of Santa Anita Park, who barred him from working there after four equine deaths at Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate Fields.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36217
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 7, 2022
Pages
p. 1, 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 7, 2022
Pages
p. 1, 3
Subjects
Deaths
Hollendorfer, Jerry
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Practical Move is favorite horse. Facts about today's 86th running of the Santa Anita Derby. -Bob Baffert has won the race a record 9 times. -The race has produced 19 Kentucky Derby winners. -Practical Move (race horse) is the 8-5 favorite, followed by Geaux Rocket Ride and National Treasure.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 8, 2023
Pages
p. B1, B9
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 8, 2023
Pages
p. B1, B9
Subjects
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
Santa Anita Derby
Horses and horse racing
Baffert, Bob
Collection
Newspaper Index
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