Two young women watch the races on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Title: Two young women watch the races on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937
Date Created: December 25, 1937
Date: 1937-12-25
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Spectators on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Crowds - Santa Anita - 12-25-37

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Santa Anita Park (Arcadia, Calif.)
Location: Arcadia (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Horse racing--California--Arcadia
Lifestyle
Spectators--California--Arcadia

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .