After 83 years of abusing and killing horses, Golden Gate Fields is officially no more. Yesterday, as the last races ever were being recorded, this from the chartwriter on the 8th (and final): “Sareeha…was not persevered with late when hopelessly beaten, and became the last horse to cross the finish line to close out eighty four years of racing at Golden Gate Fields. GOOD NIGHT, EVERYBODY.”
Yes, good night, and good riddance. (Our updated list of shuttered tracks.)
When will they have enough stall space at Pleasanton?
How many new stalls will be constructed and set up at Pleasanton to accommodate horses from Golden Gate?
I read that they didn’t have enough stall space for the horses from Golden Gate. Not all of the details of how, when and if they were actually going to have racing at Pleasanton for the horses from Golden Gate had been worked out yet at the time.
In the article I read, Pleasanton did not have accomodations for backside track workers which would be mostly the grooms and possibly their families in some cases.
More money, more money, more money would have to be spent before horses and grooms could be stabled and housed at Pleasanton. If there were recent updates on this problem, I missed them.
We have read that most are going to Pleasanton fair grounds. A few others are leaving California altogether for SW tracks.
They don’t have a problem with shipping horses to slaughter or sending them out to die on the racetrack and act like it’s all a big mystery or “this rarely happens” when in reality a killing of a racehorse “rarely happens” LESS THAN six times a day on racetracks in the USA.
That’s the question the fine folks at GGKF are reluctant to answer. Racing supporters used to try to blame us for the “disappearance” of the majority of their victims. Now, I think it’s finally sinking in that they brought this slaughterfest on to these horses.
What will happen to the remaining approximately 700 horses that were stabled there up until June 9th???
As my favorite South Park character Cartman would say “Sweet” 🥳
What a wonderful birthday present – the permanent closing of an archaic torture factory!