del mar horse race track

Click Here to Order a Ready to Frame Luster PrintIn 1937 Bing Crosby, Pat O’Brien, Oliver Hardy and Gary Cooper are at the track to greet the first fans through the gate as Del Mar opens. That very next year the famous Seabiscuit-Ligaroti match race is held on August 12 and it draws 20,000 to the track and a nationwide radio audience. After a furious duel, Seabiscuit under George (The Iceman) Woolf and 130 pounds beats Ligaroti and Noel (Spec) Richardson at 115 by a nose.Drawing on its Hollywood contacts, the plant was the first to make use of the photo-finish camera at its inaugural meet in 1937. The camera, an invention of Lorenzo del Riccio, an optical engineer who headed Paramount Pictures’ technical research laboratories, was designed to produce a strip photograph of the passage of time at a fixed point – in this case the finish line. Today, just about every racetrack in the world uses the technology.It seems like everything and everybody needs an overhaul over time and in 199