Things to do / Travel Guide
Address:1100 Eastshore Highway
Albany, California
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Home to one of the best sprint horses in recent times, Golden Gate Fields is arguably the best racetrack in northern California. With racing in the winter, spring, and summer, the track, which been open since 1941, with uninterrupted racing since the end of World War II, provides fans with year-round action.
The track has many graded stakes races, although none higher than a Grade II race, with the most prestigious event held here being the San Francisco Breeder's Cup Mile. Its most famous racer was the sprinter Lost in the Fog, who won his first 10 races, including two at Golden Gate Fields. Lost in the Fog was based here, until his euthanizing in 2006 because of cancer, and is the only horse to buried at Golden Gate Fields. Two weeks after his death, the park held a special commemoration of his life, and later named a race after him.
There are different price rates at the track for the grandstand, club house, top of the stretch, and Turf Club. Golden Gate Fields is located on the border of Berkeley and Albany, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. On race days, the AC Transit service operates buses from the North Berkeley BART station right to the track gates.