![]() ![]() “They’ll be here with their cameras and their screwdrivers, looking for souvenirs,” he said. On Sunday, he said, the crowds that had forsaken the park will finally return. Richard Warren, an usher who has worked at Hollywood Park since 1947, lamented the end of the track. The event was last held at Hollywood Park in 1997. “It wasn’t that long ago that Atlantic City and Las Vegas were the only two places you could legally bet away from the race track.”Īs Hollywood Park has lost its luster, the Santa Anita Park track in Arcadia, some 20 miles (32 km) to the northeast, has four times in the last decade hosted the prestigious Breeders’ Cup. “Racing faces a lot of challenges from casinos and other forms of gambling that didn’t exist when Hollywood Park was at its heyday, and racing had a monopoly on legalized gambling,” Mulvihill said. Outside in the sun, people filled only a few of the trackside seats in an area where crowds once roared. The end of the line for the track, which is officially called Betfair Hollywood Park, underscores the challenges facing the horse racing industry, which has seen its popularity erode as casinos and online gambling have proliferated.Īt Hollywood Park on Saturday, as the bugle sounded to announce each new lineup of thoroughbreds taking the track, groups of mostly gray-haired men placed bets indoors between glances at television monitors. The Inglewood track, which is known for its pink flamingos in the infield lake and frequent flyovers by jumbo jets descending on Los Angeles International Airport, is set to close on Sunday after a long and steady decline in attendance. ![]() INGLEWOOD, Calif., Dec 21 (Reuters) - Hollywood Park is giving horse racing fans a run for their money one last time this weekend, as the 75-year-old track near Los Angeles that was once the playground of movie industry elites closes down amid declining U.S. ![]()
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