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The game changed big time for the horse racing at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton and likely for horse racing in Northern California on Dec. 31, 2016. On that day, the fairgrounds track officially lost its designation as a training track. Last fall, the California Horse Racing Board had decreed that the Pleasanton fairgrounds […]

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