Golden Gate Fields will be the first Thoroughbred track in California
to race a three-day week when it reopens next month for its fall meet.
Track general manager Robert Hartman also addressed the long-term
future of Golden Gate Fields. He told the California Horse Racing Board
during its meeting July 21 at Del Mar that the 140-acre bayfront
property, which is located in the cities of Albany and Berkeley, is one
of six finalists as a location for an auxilary campus of the University
of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
If selected, the track would be sold and racing in Northern California would move to a new venue, Hartman explained.
The CHRB approved Golden Gate's reduced schedule. Hartman said to
think of it as "a seven-week experiment" to see if wagering handle
improves with a cutback from four days.
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