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Title
Starting gate at Santa Anita
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1980
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
And their off! Horse and jockeys take off from the starting gates at Santa Anita Park. A field breaks from the gate and heads down Santa Anita's unique hillside turf course. The grade covers over a half mile before intersecting the main track. The contour angles right, then left, and is unique to the Arcadia course. Photograph dated December 21, 1980.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00051464
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Racetracks
CARL0000055099
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23383
Subject
Santa Anita Park (Arcadia, Calif.)
Horse racing--California--Arcadia
Jockeys--United States
Race horses--California--Arcadia
Racetracks (Horse racing)--California--Arcadia
Arcadia (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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