In the 20th century, horse racing was “the sport of kings.” It was one of the three most popular sports in America, along with baseball and boxing. That’s far from the case a quarter of the way ...
The Big Fresno Fair’s longstanding tradition of hosting horse races could be coming to an end. The California Authority of Racing Fairs, the board that runs horse racing at fairs throughout the state, ...
The California Horse Racing Board meets this week to decide ... “I guess there’s a difference between contraction and a sport dying,” said Robert Hartman, chair of the prestigious Race ...
a horse suffered a race-related injury at the Big Fresno Fair and had to be euthanized. It was the third horse death reported at the Fresno track this year. There have been other incidents of ...