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A Last Hurrah For Hollywood Park
In this photo provided by Benoit Photo, Pandora Stud's Lucayan and Joel Rosario, outside, outgame Temeraine and Gary Stevens as they go on to win the Grade II $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, at Betfair Hollywood Park, Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Benoit Photo)
In this photo provided by Benoit Photo, Pandora Stud's Lucayan and Joel Rosario, outside, outgame Temeraine and Gary Stevens as they go on to win the Grade II $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, at Betfair Hollywood Park, Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Benoit Photo)

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — “And now, ladies and gentlemen, Hollywood Park belongs to you,” the race caller, Joe Hernandez, said over the public-address system on June 10, 1938. Among the 40,000 people who came for opening day at Southern California’s newest racetrack were the era’s biggest film stars, including Al Jolson, Joan Crawford, Milton Berle, Claudette Colbert, Bob Hope and Barbara Stanwyck.

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