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Title: "The Spoon" in sparkling workout
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection;
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959
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.
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Description: Opened on June 10, 1938, by the Hollywood Turf Club, Hollywood Park was renamed Betfair Hollywood Park on March 13, 2012. It was a thoroughbred and standard bred race course. The racetrack was closed after the final race on December 22, 2013.
Photograph caption dated June 11, 1959 reads, "C. V. Whitney's flying filly Silver Spoon gets the feel of the Hollywood Park track as she flies through a workout with Jockey Bill Boland aboard. The Santa Anita Derby winner will make her seasonal bow Saturday in the $50,000 added Cinema Handicap at Hollypark. Boland will ride her against Tomy Lee and other crack 3-year-olds."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Identifier: 00159880
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_ d063_ f18_ i29
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/131451
Subject: Betfair Hollywood Park (Inglewood, Calif.)
Hollywood Park (Inglewood, Calif.)
Racetracks (Horse racing)
Horse trainers
Horses--Training
Race horses
Horses
Animals
Jockeys
Men
Inglewood (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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