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Santa Anita Park { 13 images } Created 22 May 2017

This series, I shot it during Sport Shooter Academy at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, CA. on the day of the Kentucky Derby celebrated on May 6, 2017.

photos by Samuel Navarro / SSA14
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  • In a place where traditions are so well preserve that it feels like traveling back in time, Santa Anita Park can presume to be one of the most fascinating horse racing venues in the country. Surrounded by the southern California mountain range in Arcadia, California, Santa Anita Park has been trying to change the paradigms of the industry by making horse racing more appealing to younger crowds by hosting not so traditional events on the biggest day of horse racing in the entire world, the day of the Kentucky Derby. <br />
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This series of photos shows Santa Anita Park on the Day of the Kentucky Derby, also the day where old met the new.<br />
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A poster of Bill Shoemaker, the most popular jockey in America who once held the record for most wins, hangs on a wall at Santa Anita Park where he won 11 Santa Anita Handicap races and also ran his last in February 3 1990.
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  • In one of the stables at Santa Anita Park a young man walks a horse to its stall where it will rest for the rest of the day after going through some routine exercises.
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  • A man with a gambling calculator analyzes a horse racing program and measures his odds at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, on the day of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday May 6, 2017.
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  • A women working in one of the many cash and bet windows of Santa Anita park takes a bet from a gambler on the Day of the Kentucky Derby.
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  • A group of people hangout by the betting windows' area of Santa Anita Park as the watch races on TV the day of the Kentucky derby celebrated on May 6, 2017. <br />
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photo by Samuel Navarro
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  • A women wearing a decorated hat celebrating the Kentucky Derby at Santa Anita park joins her party after entering the hat contest. This tradition exists today because during the early days of the 1900s horse racing events were for the elite, making it a good opportunity for them to show their wealth through very elaborated pieces of clothes, like hats.
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  • A couple of young women wearing hats stand by a crowd of people watching the hat contest unfold the day of the Kentucky Derby at Santa Anita Park.
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  • A man smiles for a portrait after getting dunk tanked during a tailgate-like event held at Santa Anita Park on the day of the Kentucky Derby. The idea of the event was to expand horse racing to a younger audience.
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  • A couple wrestles inside a inflatable octagon at Santa Anita Park on the day of the Kentucky derby. The idea of the event was to expand horse racing to a younger audience.
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  • Two trumpet players approach the track at Santa Anita Park before performing the notes of the popular horse racing song First Call used to announce the entrances of the horses and its jockeys to the track prior the start of the race.
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  • Horse racing event at Santa Anita Park on the day of the Kentucky Derby.
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  • Meredith Garrison, looking at a giant TV screen at the center of the track, watches with suspense the Kentucky Derby as it unfolds in front of her eyes.
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  • Lost bet tickets accumulate on the floor where gamblers stand under TV screens watching the Kentucky Derby unfold in Lexington from Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.
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