But attendance plummeted as horse racing fell out of fashion. The first of a series of explosions begins to bring down the grandstand at the former Hollywood Park racetrack on May 31, 2015. AP ...

Betfair Hollywood Park, as the venerable 238-acre horse racing site was renamed last year, will be redeveloped beginning in January with about 3,000 homes, more than 600,000 square feet of retail ...

Betfair Hollywood Park will close by year's end and the 75-year-old racetrack property in Inglewood that hosted Seabiscuit and the first Breeders' Cup in 1984 will be developed with new housing ...

An effort to move the famed Hollywood Park racetrack from Inglewood to Irvine is a tale of the suburbs and the inner city. For Irvine, a racetrack at the former El Toro Marine base would bolster ...

First Hollywood Park stadium scenario would have helped horse racing R.D. Hubbard, chairman of Hollywood Park, speaks to reporters on June 10, 1995, regarding negotiations with the Raiders for an ...

Inglewood >> Rudy Carreon was just 17 when a Huntington Park neighbor first brought him to Hollywood Park in 1938, the debut season for the venerable South Bay landmark.And 75 years later, the 92 ...

Clubhouse Turn: The Twilight of Hollywood Park Race Track is out now on Angel City Press. A book launch event takes place on Sunday, March 1 at 4 p.m.; Vroman's, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena.

If you never got to Hollywood Park, you never will because it doesn't exist anymore. The racetrack, which opened in 1938, began demolition last year to make way for a massive, 238-acre mixed-use ...

It is symbolically resonant that in Inglewood, horse racing has been replaced by football, a baton pass across decades, from a time – just about when Hollywood Park opened -- when racing, boxing and ...

The racetrack, which was 298-acres, closed down after its final race in December 2013. It originally opened on June 10, 1938, closing only from 1942 to 1944 during World War II.

LOS ANGELES — Betfair Hollywood Park will close by year’s end and the 75-year-old racetrack property in Inglewood that hosted Seabiscuit and the first Breeders’ Cup in 1984 will be developed ...