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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Hollywood Park Racetrack is closing down in 2013 and it will soon be redeveloped as an eco master-planned residential community.

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.

About 10 minutes before post time at the Hollywood Park racetrack this month, Paul Belanger recalled how he first fell for horse racing about 30 years ago. Fascinated by the “numbers puzzle ...

Inglewood >> The quick-fire patter of an auctioneer reverberated through Hollywood Park’s largely empty, cavernous grandstand Friday hawking tillers and trucks, stainless-steel tables, saws and ...

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 ...