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Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course, is a thoroughbredracino in Austintown, Ohio. It is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn National Gaming.

History[edit]

Construction on Mahoning Valley Race Course, located on Ohio Route 46, began on May 30, 2013. Mahoning Valley Race Course opened on September 17, 2014.^[1] The facility features a one-mile dirt course with grandstand, and a gaming area that displays nearly 1,000 video lottery terminals.

The track replaces Beulah Park Racetrack in Columbus, Ohio. Racing operations at Mahoning Valley began on November 24, 2014.^[2]

Physical Attributes[edit]

The track features a one-mile oval racetrack over which the thoroughbreds race. The track is 80 feet wide, and is banked at 3% in the stretches and 6% in the turns. The stretch run is 1,000 feet long.

There are two (2) main wagering areas – 1st floor, and the Simulcast Teletheater on the 2nd Floor. Wagering machines are available on both levels.

The backstretch consists of 13 barns with stabling for up to 988 horses, and a receiving barn which has 54 stalls. The receiving barn is used by horses that will be coming in the day of the race from another track or farm to race. Dormitories are available for employees of the horse trainers, the building has 84 rooms that can house 2 (two) people in each room, capacity of 168. There is no charge to horsemen for barn stall space but they will be charged for the dormitory space. The dormitory will have a lounge and vending machines available for horseman.

Racing[edit]

In its second season of racing, Mahoning Valley Racecourse has seen gains in both wagering and overnight purses. In March, 2015, overnight purses raised by 5%. The average daily purse at the end of the 2015 winter/spring meet was $76,000. Prior to the second racing season, officials at Mahoning Valley announced another purse increase, during the 2015-16 meet, overnight purses averaged more than $106,000. This number competes aggressively with both Thistledown Racino in nearby North Randall and Mountaineer Racetrack in nearby West Virginia. MVRC announced at the end of 2017 a 5-7% purse increase. Purses for maiden special weights increased from $21,000 to $22,100 and allowance races will be as high as $29,000.

During the 2015-16 racing season, Mahoning Valley Racecourse announced two open stakes races added to its stakes schedule. The $200,000 Steel Valley Sprint Stakes, a six-furlong dash for 3-year-old horses, became the tracks signature race. At the conclusion of the 2018 spring meet, the track announced a $50,00 increase in the sprint, making the total purse $250,000. The $75,000 Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Distaff, also a six-furlong dash, was also added. These two races become part of a 23-race, $5.35 million Penn Gaming Racing Challenge.

Notable Jockey's who have ridden at Mahoning Valley include Corey Lanerie, Florent Geroux, Irad Ortiz, Jr., Trevor McCarthy, Ricardo Santana, Jr., Jose Valdivia Jr., Paco Lopez, Channing Hill, Javier Castellano and Deshawn Parker.

Now entering its fourth live-racing season, Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Valley Racecourse's thoroughbred horses run on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays with post times of 12:45 P.M. EST and Saturdays with a post time of 12:15 P.M. EST, from late October to late April.

Stakes Schedule[edit]

The 2016-17 racing schedule features 17 stakes races, three (3) open stakes and ten (10) Ohio State bred stakes races. Also in 2016, Mahoning Valley Racecourse will host the Best of Ohio Day featuring four (4) Ohio bred stakes races.

Open Stakes Races

• $250,000 Steel Valley Sprint
• $75,000 Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Distaff
• $75,000 Austintown Filly Sprint

Ohio Bred Stakes Races

• $75,000 Radosevich/Ohio Freshman
• $75,000 John W. Galbreath Memorial
• $75,000 Glacial Princess
• $75,000 Howard B. Noonan
• $75,000 Cardinal Handicap
• $75,000 Ruff/Kirchberg Memorial Handicap
• $75,000 Southern Park Stakes
• $75,000 Ohio Debutante Handicap
• $75,000 First Lady
• $75,000 Bobbie Bricker Memorial Handicap

2016 Best of Ohio Day

• $150,000 Best of Ohio Sprint
• $150,000 Best of Ohio Endurance
• $150,000 Best of Ohio Distaff
• $150,000 Best of Ohio Juvenile

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Mitchell, J. Breen (May 30, 2013). 'Ground broken for new Austintown racino'. wfmj.com. WFMJ TV-21. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
2. ^LaMarra, Tom (October 24, 2013). 'Most Racing Dates Still Not Approved in Ohio'. The BloodHorse. Retrieved October 25, 2013.

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Hollywood Park, later sold and referred to as Betfair Hollywood Park, was a thoroughbredrace course located in Inglewood, California, about 3 miles (5 km) from Los Angeles International Airport and adjacent to the Forum indoor arena.^[1][2] In 1994 Hollywood Park Casino, with a pokercard room, was added to the racetrack complex.^[1] Horse racing and training were shut down in December 2013 though the casino operations continued while a new state of the art casino building opened in October 2016.^[1][2]

The former horse racetrack area will be the site of SoFi Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL), when the stadium is completed in 2020. Until then, the Rams temporarily play home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Downtown Los Angeles and the Chargers play at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson.

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History[edit]

Founding and early years[edit]

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The track was opened on June 10, 1938 by the Hollywood Turf Club^[3] the racetrack was designed by noted racetrack architect Arthur Froehlich. Its chairman was Jack L. Warner^[3] of the Warner Bros. film studio. Prominent shareholders included Jack Warner's brother and fellow Warner Bros. executive Harry, Hollywood studio executives Walt Disney, Samuel Goldwyn, Darryl Zanuck, actors Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, George Jessel, Ronald Colman and Ralph Bellamy. In addition to being shareholders film directors Raoul Walsh and Mervyn LeRoy were also founding members of the track's Board of Directors with Jack and Harry Warner and Al Jolson.

War closure and rebuilding[edit]

Hollywood Park closed from 1942 to 1944 due to World War II, where it was used as a storage facility. In 1949, the grandstand and clubhouse were destroyed by a fire; the rebuilt facility reopened in 1950. In 1984, the racetrack was extended from one mile (1.6 km) around to 1¹⁄₈ miles (1.8 km) around prior to the first Breeders Cup race.^{[citation needed]}Harness racing also took place at Hollywood Park.^[4]

By the late 1980s the racetrack Hollywood Park, though frequented by celebrities, was near the point of bankruptcy.^[5] As of 1989, a group of investors was working to buy Los Alamitos Racetrack in California for $68 million.^[6] Los Alamitos, owned by Hollywood Park, was still under its original ownership as of 1991, though a significant portion of the stock had been bought by external investors.^[7][8]RD Hubbard became CEO of Hollywood Park in April 1991, after having purchased a portion of the company's stock in late 1990.^[5] He was assisted in the ouster of the former chairman Marje Everett, who had run Hollywood Park since 1972, by company shareholder Tom Gamel and sports businessman Harry Ornest.^[7] In 1991 $20 million was spent improving the racetrack. That year the park earned its first profit in five years, and despite rioting in nearby Los Angeles in 1992, annual profits that year increased to $5.4 million.^[5] By 1993, the Los Angeles Times wrote that 'shareholders at Hollywood Park... are enjoying substantial investment gains.'^[9] A card club casino was added to the complex in 1994,^{[citation needed]} as Hollywood Park underwent a $100 million expansion into Hollywood Park Casino, which opened in the summer of 1994. Also in 1994, Hollywood Park Inc. purchased the Arizona-based Turf Paradise Race Track for $34 million in stock.^[5]

In May 1995 after the departure of the Rams for St. Louis, the owners of the National Football League teams approved with a 27-1 vote with two abstentions, a resolution supporting a plan to build a $200 million, privately financed stadium on property owned by Hollywood Park for the Los Angeles Raiders.^[10] Then Raiders owner Al Davis balked and refused the deal over a stipulation that he would have had to accept a second team at the stadium. After the deal fell through the Raiders returned to Oakland, California.

Hollywood Park Inc. suffered losses in 1995, though at the end of 1996, Hollywood Park bought Boomtown, Inc. for $188 million. Boomtown operated and owned casinos in several cities such as Las Vegas and New Orleans. Boomtown merged with the casino operator Pinnacle Entertainment in 1998. Hollywood Park was purchased by Churchill Downs Incorporated on September 10, 1999^[5] for $140 million.^{[citation needed]} Churchill Downs acquired Hollywood Park-Casino in the process, which was in turn leased by Hollywood Park Inc. (later named Pinnacle Entertainment).^[5] The previous owners of the track renamed their company Pinnacle Entertainment to concentrate on its gambling interests.^{[citation needed]}

Sale and later developments[edit]

In July 2005, Churchill Downs Incorporated sold the track to the Bay Meadows Land Company which was owned by Stockbridge Capital Group for $260 million in cash.^[11] Under the terms of the deal, the company, which at the time also operated Bay Meadows in San Mateo, was to continue thoroughbred racing at Hollywood Park for at least three years. According to Bay Meadows officials, the continuation of Hollywood Park as a racing venue after that depended on California allowing more gambling, like slot machines, to the track.^[12]

Some of the Hollywood Park land was sold to real estate developers to build a new housing community called the Inglewood Renaissance. Development began in 2005.

New grass was planted on the turf course after Hollywood Park's spring-summer meet in 2005. Due to safety concerns, however, turf racing was not conducted for that year's autumn meet. As a result, several major stakes races that comprised Hollywood's Autumn Turf Festival were cancelled that year.

After the conclusion of Hollywood's spring-summer meet in 2006, it was announced that a second chute would be built inside the turf course to accommodate sprint races at six furlongs. This followed a similar move by Monmouth Park to build a turf chute for sprint races.

In 2010, Hollywood Park played host for the first time to Oak Tree.^[13]

Betfair/Hollywood Park Agreement[edit]

The Hollywood Park Racing Association and Betfair US, the Los Angeles-based subsidiary of Betfair that also owns TVG Network, completed a historic agreement March 13, 2012 intended to transform the customer experience for fans at the venue as well as online and on television. Under terms of the five-year deal, Hollywood Park was renamed 'Betfair Hollywood Park in what was the first naming rights agreement for a horse racing venue in the United States.^[3]

Closure and redevelopment[edit]

On May 9, 2013 in a letter to employees, Hollywood Park president F. Jack Liebau announced that the track would be closing at the end of their fall racing season in 2013. In the letter, Liebau stated that the 260 acres on which the track sits 'now simply has a higher and better use', and that 'in the absence of a favorable change in racing's business model, the ultimate development of the Hollywood property was inevitable'. It was expected that the track would be demolished and replaced by housing units, park land and an entertainment complex, while the casino would be renovated.

On December 22, 2013 at 6:11pm the final race^[14] was run with Woodsman Luck taking first place, Depreciable in second place and Danderek in third place, concluding 75 years of near-continuous racing in Southern California. The complex was demolished in 2014 to make way for a new residential complex.

In 2014, Stan Kroenke, owner of the NFL's St. Louis Rams, purchased a 60-acre parcel of land adjacent to the track property and The Forum with the intentions of building a National Football League stadium on the land.^[15] Kroenke's 60 acres was not big enough for an NFL stadium and parking, but his announced partnership for the neighboring track land with Stockbridge Capital Group, would fold the stadium into the larger office/retail/residential project planned for the track site by master planner Hart Howerton.^[16]

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On February 24, 2015, the Inglewood City Council approved a plan to build an 70,000-seat football stadium on the site in anticipation of the St. Louis Rams moving back to Los Angeles (which was the team's previous home from 1946 until 1994).^[17] And on May 31, 2015, with the Inglewood mayor on hand sporting a Rams cap, the grandstand was reduced to rubble in a flurry of timed explosions.

On January 12, 2016, the NFL voted to move the Rams back to Los Angeles by a vote of 30-2, a move of the Chargers followed. In October 2016, the last part of the former track, the Casino, was demolished and a new Hollywood Park Casino was opened next door. Construction of the new stadium and redevelopment of the former track site began in earnest.

Notable events at the track[edit]

• In 1951, Citation became the first million-dollar-winning horse by winning his final start, the Hollywood Gold Cup.
• On July 3, 1977, recent Triple Crown winner, Seattle Slew, finished fourth in the Swaps Stakes, a major upset.
• Niatross wins the American Pacing Classic in a world record 1.52 1/5.^[18]
• Hosted the inaugural Breeders' Cup in 1984 and also hosted the event in 1987 and 1997.
• 1991 introduced Friday night racing on 12 Fridays during the summer meet.
• The Quarantine Barn, with four, six-stall sections, was constructed adjacent to the main stable gate for the 1992 Autumn Meet. This facility permits international shippers to come directly to Hollywood Park upon arrival at Los Angeles International Airport.
• The 3,000-square-foot (280 m²) Noble Threewitt/Charlie Whittingham Horsemen's Lounge opened in December, 1993.
• On December 10, 1999, Laffit Pincay, Jr. surpassed Bill Shoemaker's all-time record for race wins by a jockey.
• Cesario (JPN) becomes the first Japanese-bred, Japan-based racehorse to win an American stakes race in nearly 50 years, winning the July 2005 American Oaks.
• The race course is replicated in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V.

Physical attributes[edit]

The track had a 1¹⁄₈-mile (1.8 km) dirt oval, plus a 1-mile 145 foot (1.654 km) turf oval. The track regularly seated 10,000 people. A new Cushion Track racing surface was installed in September, 2006 to replace the existing dirt, making Hollywood Park the first track in California to meet the California Horse Racing Board's guideline that all tracks in the state replace dirt surfaces with a safer artificial surface by the end of 2007.

Racing[edit]

These races were the graded stakes races run at Hollywood Park. (All turf stakes listed below were put on hiatus during the 2005 Autumn Meet.)

Grade 1 :

Grade 2 :

Grade 3 :

Ungraded stakes :

See also[edit]

• Hollywood Park Casino, casino formerly part of the racetrack, still in operation in new facilities
• Bob Benoit (horse racing), general manager beginning in 1977

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcFast, Erik. 'Hollywood Park Casino's Grand Opening Oct. 21'. Card Player (October 21, 2016).
2. ^ ^abMazza, Sandy (August 9, 2016). 'Take a peek inside the new Hollywood Park Casino in Inglewood before it opens'. Daily Breeze.
3. ^ ^abcHistory of Hollywood Park, Retrieved October 20, 2012.
4. ^SC Rewind: Hollywood Park, Standardbred Canada, Retrieved 11 June 2016
5. ^ ^abcdefStallings, Dianne (August 26, 2010). 'A complicated life'. Ruidoso News. Archived from the original on June 19, 2015. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
6. ^Christine, Bill (June 29, 1989). 'Horse Racing : Get Out of Dodge: Hubbard Selling Interests in Kansas Tracks'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
7. ^ ^abChristine, Bill (February 19, 1991). 'Hubbard Looks to Track's Future : Hollywood Park: He is working 15-hour days in his new role as president to get things ready for the April 24 opener'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
8. ^Christine, Bill (February 19, 1991). 'Hubbard Looks to Track's Future : Hollywood Park: He is working 15-hour days in his new role as president to get things ready for the April 24 opener'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 16, 2015.
9. ^Christine, Bill (November 17, 1993). 'Change for the Bettor : Hollywood Park's Hubbard Fuels Innovation'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 6, 2015.
10. ^'The day Al Davis walked away'. espn.com. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
11. ^'Churchill Downs Incorporated to Sell Hollywood Park to Bay Meadows Land Company; Racing Operations to Continue at Historic Inglewood Racetrack'. businesswire.com. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
12. ^The Orange County Register, July 7, 2005.
13. ^'Inaugural Oak Tree At Hollywood Park Meet Will Begin Sept. 30; Zenyatta Scheduled To Return In $250,000 Lady's Secret On Oct. 2'. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved October 20, 2012.
14. ^Final Race at Hollywood Park on December 22, 2013 Video on YouTube (Retrieved May 8, 2014 from the OFFICIAL Hollywood Park YouTube channel).
15. ^Vincent, Sam Farmer, Roger. 'Owner of St. Louis Rams plans to build NFL stadium in Inglewood'. latimes.com. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
16. ^'Architect Paul Milana on Revitalization and Revival | Hollywood Park'. www.hollywoodparklife.com. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
17. ^'Inglewood approves stadium plans'. ESPN. Associated Press. February 25, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
18. ^Was this the greatest of them all?, www.harnessbred.com, Retrieved 11 June 2016

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