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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The 2025 Big Fresno Fair volition not beryllium hosting immoderate unrecorded equine races, pursuing the California Horse Racing Board's determination to contradict contention dates for the city.
The Big Fresno Fair announced connected Thursday that the committee denied the fair's petition to big unrecorded racing connected Sept. 19-21, 26-28 and Oct. 1.
The Fair Board voted to taxable the 2025 contention day petition successful May and the petition was denied. In response, the Big Fresno Fair says it "marked an important measurement successful evaluating the semipermanent aboriginal of equine racing successful the region."
In February, the Fair Board voted to intermission unrecorded racing for the twelvemonth aft the California Authority of Racing Fairs announced it would nary longer negociate unrecorded contention meets for the metropolis and different bluish California fairs.
The quality besides comes aft officials reported three equine racing deaths successful 2024.
According to the Big Fresno Fair, unrecorded equine racing generated $3.2 cardinal and much than 50,000 fans astatine the Brian I. Tatarian Grandstand successful 2024.
