The lease expires at the end of 2020 and that is what essentially opened the door for the halting of horseracing. Since 2014, horseracing and the track has been leased by Calder’s owner, Churchill Downs, to Hallandale Beach’s Gulfstream Park’s owners, The Stronach Group, which renamed the track Gulfstream Park West. There has been plenty of back and forth in the courts for Thoroughbred racing to be a thing of the past at the venerable Calder. Plesa’s father, Eddie Plesa Sr., was one of the very first trainers at the facility when it opened in 1971. It was a fitting finish: Eddie Plesa Jr., a member of Calder’s Hall of Fame, was the winning trainer in the final race at the facility. – Diligent won the final race at the track formerly known as Calder on Saturday, ending a half-century run of racing at the facility that was rebranded several years ago as Gulfstream Park West.
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