Four Bay Area residents laid on the track at Golden Gate Fields this week to stop racing and to shut down the facility forever, according to Direct Action Everywhere, an animal advocacy group.

The four were on the track at 1100 Eastshore Highway as of about 12:20 p.m. Thursday, connected by PVC pipes in a move the activists called a sleeping dragon. They lit purple flares as they were lying in place.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.