Santa Anita crowds up 21%

Tweet Horse racing at Santa Anita Park got out of the gate extremely fast this season. The biggest opening day crowd since 1994 (44,579 on Dec. 26) proved to be no one-trick pony, with on-track attendance through the first six days of racing up 21% and on-track handle up 11%. Out-of-state handle also surged 18% from [...]

Best Santa Anita crowd since 1994

Tweet With Santa Anita Park‘s traditional day-after-Christmas opening day falling on a Monday that was a holiday for most people and picture-perfect weather, the race track enjoyed its biggest season opener in nearly 17 years. The 44,579 in attendance was the first opening day crowd over 40,000 since 2002, and the biggest since the 46,904 [...]

Arboretum opens Dec. 26

Tweet More than three weeks after closing due to tremendous wind storm damage to 700 trees on Dec. 1, including a loss of 235 trees, the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Garden re-opened a week ahead of schedule on Monday, Dec. 26. More than 150 workers from multiple public agencies worked with the entire Arboretum [...]

Arboretum wind devastation

Tweet Perhaps the area most devastated by the Dec. 1 wind storm and certainly the one that will take the longest to recover was the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Garden. Arboretum CEO Richard Schulhof and Superintendent Timothy Phillips said the Arboretum is closed indefinitely, probably at least three weeks. About half the trees [...]

Snow Festival, Santa Dec. 3

Tweet The City of Arcadia’s annual free Holiday Snow festival, featuring sledding and playing on real snow, and breakfast with Santa for $8 per ticket, will be Saturday, Dec. 3 at the Arcadia Community Center, 365 Campus Drive. The Holiday Snow Festival, which runs free to the public from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., features [...]

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