Bay Meadows Race Track

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Interesting, my (soon to be) BIL and his wife live practically across the street from there. We were visiting last fall and I got excited when I saw a sign for a track and as we drove by it was clear that the barns were empty. It made my heart hurt a little. I don't know what the plans are for the land, but I imagined they were going to turn it into another stripmall/apt building/industrial park like everything else nearby. For the Bay Meadows documentary, almost every one of the Fox's 1,500 seats was filled. The jockey Russell Baze, a prominent part of the film and now well past the 11,000 mark in career wins, was there. So was Jack Liebau, the track's last president, and Greg Gunderson, whose father ran the track for decades. Bob Gunderson, now 92 and recovering from a broken leg, married into the Bill Kyne family. Kyne, a bookmaker who went straight, was the free-wheeling impresario who helped prod California into launching the parimutuel betting era in the 1930s and built Bay Meadows after making a $5,000 sidebet that the track would open on time.

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