The Golden Gate Fields horse racing track near Berkeley is shutting down after its current 2023 season, the company that owns the track announced this week.

The Stronach Group in its announcement of the decision said Golden Gate Fields’ closure is meant to “double down on its prestigious racing and training venues at Santa Anita Park and San Luis Rey Downs,” both in Southern California.

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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.