Hollywood Park Racetrack

In America, it's a bit more like, you know.

It wasn't always the case in the 1930s when Bing Crosby was involved in the creation of Hollywood Park.

It was very high status, enormous crowds.

Everyone went.

And, you know, I, I love that, and I think it's really cool how there is so much of a, of a weave between Hollywood and horse racing.

Yeah, and my grandfather was kind of influential on that, bringing stars to Hollywood Park all the time.

That was his stomping ground.

He was on the board of directors for many years there and, and, um, yeah, but you go back in time, I mean, Del Mar is Bing Crosby, right? He, he's the one-

In fact, he had a horse in the undercard that, that did well.

Yep.

So it, it is true that it still intertwines and, you know, one of the ones that was really critical out there that is one of my favorite tracks of all time was Hollywood Park.

And you talk-

Dollar is a student of the racing form.

I see he picked Gallant Kid today at Hollywood.

Is that how it went?

I was gonna return it, Johnny, honest.

Yeah.

Santa Anita racetracks, or maybe it was Hollywood park when they closed down.

That's what it was.

Santa Anita is still going through either way.

By the time the Hialeah meet was over, Vera and I were married and on our way to her place in Los Angeles.

Santa Anita was closed, but Hollywood Park was about to open, and I'd figured on running a stable and a string of ponies.

I didn't mention the subject until we'd pulled out of San Bernardino.

What's the matter with the idea, Vera? I thought you were crazy about horse racing.

They're not on...

They're not off of... cable and on free streaming because they have some sort of brilliant strategy for you know maximizing viewership of the game there's just nobody who wants to pay them to broadcast their games that's it the second somebody would pay them they would take the money and they would and the games would cease being free um that's just kind of that simple so you know la i think la live is great i love la live i think it's way more fun than what used to be You know, when I was a kid going to the games at the Forum, you'd go to the Forum, you'd park in the massive parking lot at Hollywood Park.

You'd walk through the parking lot of the Forum or you'd pay the extra money to park at the Forum.

You'd go to the game.

So this is Grady on his last night as a jockey.

Behind him are Hialeah, Hollywood Park, and Saratoga.

Rounding the far turn and coming up fast on the rail is the Twilight Zone.

Hello.