Harness racing operations at Cal Expo in Sacramento will shut down for good this Spring, according to a release. The California Exposition and State Fair Board voted to terminate a lease agreement ...

“The last remaining light of harness racing on the West Coast will soon go dark,” is how Nicole Kraft eloquently began her HarnessRacingUpdate piece last week on the demise of Cal-Expo in California.

For 170 years of California state fairs, there has always been horse racing. This summer will break the streak, as a dying industry has retreated to a handful of Southern California tracks, leaving no ...