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Health & Fitness

"All-Access Photo Day" Package at Golden Gate Fields

Bring your camera close for morning workouts on April 28. See jockeys, trainers and horses from the inside. All levels of photographers welcome.

Mornings at start early before dawn when coffee is your friend.

Cleaning of stalls begins around 4:30. The track opens for training 6 am. That is when the race to get your training done is on.

With 1,000 horses or so on the backside, it is hustle and bustle. Every horse will ether have to jog, gallup, work, school from the gate for the 2-year-olds, or walk.

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Training is over at 10, so having a good breakfast is just smart.

Saturday morning, April 28, come enjoy a special winner's circle breakfast as jockeys and trainers ready their investments for racing. 

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The All-Access Photo Day Package is $21; this press pass gets you the closest to the horses without a California Horse Racing Board license. 

Eating breakfast and clocking horses is fun without taking any photos. Your package comes with a racing program. Plan your winnings and get great photo of them breaking from the gate in the Grade III San Francisco Mile $150,000 on the turf. Start your day as a sure winner.

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