Category: Race Track

Charlie Chaplin: Mabel’s Busy Day (1914)

A hotdog girl gives one to a policeman who then allows her into a race track. While other customers swipe her hotdogs, Charlie runs off with the whole box, pretending to sell them while actually giving them away. She calls her policeman who battles Charlie. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com


Horse Dies From Training Injury at Santa Anita Park

ARCADIA, Calif.—Star of Africa, a 4-year-old filly, died Oct. 31 from a training injury suffered at Santa Anita Park on the last day of the fall racing season, officials announced. Star of Africa had 16 starts and three first-place finishes in her career. She was owned by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and trained by Patrick Gallagher….