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Smooth Running: Hollywood Park Hollywood Park may be several places:
  • Hollywood Park, Texas
  • Hollywood Park, Chicago, a neighborhood in Chicago
  • Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California
  • Hollywood Park Racetrack, Thoroughbred race track in Inglewood, California
 Race Track completed an $8 million a synthetic surface track in time for its 36-day autumn meet. The new track came in response to a proposal adopted by the California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W).  Horse Racing horse racing, trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently, quarterhorses) on a flat track, or among saddled horses over a turf course with  Board that requires California's five major thorough-bred tracks to install synthetic surfaces before the end of 2007. Hollywood Park is the first to do so. The sport has seen a spike A burst of extra voltage in a power line that lasts only a few nanoseconds. See power surge, power swell, sag and surge suppression.

(jargon) spike - To defeat a selection mechanism by introducing a (sometimes temporary) device that forces a specific result.
 in the number of injuries suffered by horses in recent years, and synthetic surfaces are considered safer.
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Title Annotation:California Horse Racing Board proposed Hollywood Park Race Track is completed
Comment:Smooth running.(California Horse Racing Board proposed Hollywood Park Race Track is completed)
Author:Filus, Sarah
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1U9CA
Date:Sep 18, 2006
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