Golden Gate Fields comes to a close as California racing struggles to exist

The end of Golden Gate Fields will come on Sunday when it runs its last card. So, what’s all that got to do with Sunday’s final day at Golden Gate Fields after 83 years of racing? “It’s one of my main projects after this week,” said David Duggan, chief operating officer at Golden Gate Fields. The closure of Golden Gate Fields is just one problem California horse racing faces. “Golden Gate Fields is a beautiful small track built into Fleming Point, it’s a natural amphitheater,” said Alan Balch, currently the executive director of the California Thoroughbred Trainers who formerly headed a company that did advertising, marketing and public relations for Golden Gate and Bay Meadows from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.