page_title: Golden Gate Fields
section_title: Racing
hierarchical_section_title: Golden Gate Fields / Racing
caption_attribution_description: English: Horse racing at Golden Gate Fields, Albany, California. Race 4 on turf, 1 mile. Winner: #1 Aztec Warrior. Place: #5 White Falcon. Show: #10 Stormin G A. Also ran: El Nino Fable, Gator Don't Play, Lion Command, Hedoesitinstyle, Sumday Sumday, Hillbilly Rockstar, and Kentucky King. 26 December 2017.
context_page_description: Golden Gate Fields is an American horse racing track straddling both Albany, California and Berkeley, California along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay adjacent to the Eastshore Freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area. With the closing of the Bay Meadows racetrack on May 11, 2008, it became the only major throughbred racetrack in Northern California. It is currently owned by The Stronach Group.
  The track is set on 140 acres of land in the cities of Albany and Berkeley. Golden Gate Fields' facilities currently include a one-mile synthetic track and a turf course measuring 9/10 of a mile, or 7 furlongs plus 132 feet, stalls for 1,420 horses, a main grandstand with seating for approximately 8,000 customers, a clubhouse with seating for approximately 5,200 customers, a Turf Club with seating for approximately 1,500 customers and parking for over 8,500 cars. The synthetic track is called Tapeta, and was installed in the summer of 2007.
context_section_description: In 1950, Citation and Noor met in the Golden Gate Handicap. The English bred Noor beat the great Triple Crown winner Citation, prompting Citation's rider, Steve Brooks, to say, "We just can't beat that horse."
  In 1957, the horse Silky Sullivan came to the track and with him came the excitement that followed him throughout his life. Until the death of Lost in the Fog, he was also the only horse to be buried in the infield.  Lost in the Fog's plaque is the third to be placed at Golden Gate Fields, found near the one for Silky Sullivan and that for Bill Shoemaker.
  The infield turf course was opened on February 22, 1972.
  In 1974, the first $2 million day in Northern California was held on California Derby Day.
  In 1984, the great gelding John Henry set a course record winning the Golden Gate Handicap.
  Before his death in 2006, Lost in the Fog was based here.  On September 17, 2006, he was euthanized due to inoperable tumors found on his spleen and along his spine.  Prior to his early death, Lost in the Fog ran three races at his home base — winning twice, and placing once.  On September 30, 2006 Golden Gate Fields held a celebration of his life.
  During the summer of 2007, the racetrack installed a polymer synthetic type racing surface as mandated by the California Horse Racing Board.  The Tapeta Footings synthetic all-weather racing surface is designed to make racing safer for both horses and riders.
  On February 1, 2008, on board the horse Two Step Cat, Russell Baze got his 10,000th career win as a jockey. Baze won 54 riding titles and a total of 5,765 races at Golden Gate Fields during his career.
  Shared Belief, the Champion 2-year-old colt of 2013, was based at the track and won several races there.
  With the loss of Bay Meadows to developers in 2008, Golden Gate Fields has become Northern California's only major racetrack (aside from the racetracks associated with the summer fair circuit). The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) sets the specific racing dates each year, but there is customarily a long winter/spring meet running from late December to mid June, and a fall meet running from mid October to mid December. Starting in 2010, a summer meet was added with dates based around the summer fair circuit. On June 15, 2016, the CHRB presented a proposed 2017 calendar that would eliminate the summer meet.
caption: A race on turf in 2017
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