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Del Mar Events
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The Horses Are on the Track!
Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008
2:00 p.m., Del Mar Fairgrounds
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The Bravery
Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
Del Mar Thoroughbred Club
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The Horses Are on the Track!
Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
4:00 p.m., Del Mar Fairgrounds
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Ziggy Marley
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008
3:30 p.m., Del Mar Thoroughbred Club
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Tales from a Storied Past
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008
1:00 p.m., Barnes and Noble Bookstore Del Mar
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(Pooch) Practice Makes Perfect
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008
10:00 a.m., Dog Beach Del Mar
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The Horses Are on the Track!
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008
2:00 p.m., Del Mar Fairgrounds
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The Horses Are on the Track!
Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008
2:00 p.m., Del Mar Fairgrounds
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Famous Former Neighbors
Del Mar Photos
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wello: County Fair 2008
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wello: County Fair '08
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The largest anual event of the year the 2008 San Diego County Fair will run from Saturday, June 14 through Sunday, July 6.
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One of most popular places to eat at the fair. Eat fried Twinkies, fried Spam, fried White Castle burgers and more! Tell Chicken Charlie we ...
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One of the Fair's most enduring traditions, the Junior Livestock Auction, will be held on Friday, July 4. This event is the culmination of a ...
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Small Animals: Rabbits, chickens, turkeys and other small animals are on display in the AgriFair during the weeks of their competition
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World Biggest Barbeque: Located on the Sparkletts Water Infield, this Outlaw Grill measures 20 feet high, 83 feet long, weighing 27 tons and covering nearly ...
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Picking up a pet at the San Diego County Fair.
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The San Diego County Fair is the largest annual event in San Diego County and the fifth largest fair in the United States, drawing more ...
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San Diego County Fair 2008
Del Mar Blogs
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Slums of Del Mar Hills
By acarter523 - July 31, 2008
It wasn't my neighbor, a single mom who occasionally asked my wife and I if we'd like to adopt her ...
Del Mar Stories
Pinback at Del Mar Fairgrounds
Del Mar
| Music Videos
Published Aug. 3, 2008
Pinback live at Del Mar Fairgrounds on Friday, August 1, 2008.
Thrashers
Del Mar
| Event Hilite
Published July 23, 2008
“I grew up on a farm in Cole Camp, Missouri. I enjoyed watching amateur rodeos, but my family wasn’t a rodeo family,” says professional bull rider Matt Bohon. “I’d see bareback riding, bucking horses, calf roping, ...
It’s three minutes to post before the 9th race at Del Mar, and my wallet is empty.
Cover Story
| Del Mar
Published July 16, 2008
I just handed my last 90 bucks to a scowling man behind the counter, and if number five doesn’t finish in the top three in this $25,000 maiden claimer, I’ll go home broke, with only an ...
The Morning After Mess
Carlsbad
| Del Mar
| Mission Beach
| Neighborhood News
| Ocean Beach
| Oceanside
| Pacific Beach
Published July 3, 2008
The Fourth of July is about celebration. It's about honoring our country, our freedoms, while tossing a few back with family and friends — not on the beach of course — and watching the spectacular displays ...
Del Mar Racetrack, 1936
Del Mar
| Picture Story
Published May 28, 2008
Bing Crosby (left, in the white jacket and straw hat) at the Del Mar Racetrack’s setting of a memorial stone, 1936. (The track opened the following year.) To the right of the hoist chain, the tall ...
High Horses
Breaking News
| Del Mar
Published Nov. 21, 2007
The racing season is long over at Del Mar, but 20 state legislators and their relatives no doubt have happy memories of the meet, thanks to the generosity of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. According to ...
All That's Left
Carlsbad
| Cover Story
| Del Mar
| Encinitas
| Imperial Beach
| La Jolla
| Leucadia
| Mission Beach
| Ocean Beach
| Pacific Beach
| Point Loma
Published Oct. 25, 2007
1982. Israel and Lebanon were at war. England and Argentina were at war. In Hollywood, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were formed. Navy beat Army 24-7, the Chargers beat the Dolphins 41-38 to make it to ...
Beauty Queen Vanishes!
Del Mar
| Straight From the Hip
Published Aug. 2, 2007
Dear Matt: Whatever happened to the "Fairest of the Fair" at the San Diego County Fair or Del Mar Fair? -- Bob, via e-mail Hey, you're right. Haven't seen her around lately, but never missed her ...
Fair Pay?
Blurt
| Del Mar
Published June 7, 2007
Insiders say two Del Mar Fair Grandstand headliners this year will get paid a lot more to play the venue than what they would otherwise get for a local show. Switchfoot, which would normally command about ...
Build a Swamp
Del Mar
| Straight From the Hip
Published March 29, 2007
Matt: The wetlands intersected by I-5 just south of Via de la Valle, looks like a major construction project is underway. Isn't that environmentally protected real estate? -- Keith W. Turner, Encinitas Hey, Matt: Settle an ...
Where's the Party?
Blurt
| Del Mar
Published Dec. 28, 2006
"If it loses money, I'm prepared to do it again," said Chris Wepsic in 2005 when he launched the first Festival Del Mar. Wepsic produced and bore primary financial responsibility for the two-day event at the ...
Around Town New Year's Day
Calendar Highlight
| Coronado
| Del Mar
| La Jolla
| Old Town
Published Dec. 28, 2006
O n the first day of the year, the roads are empty and most televisions are tuned to the Rose Parade -- some for the flowers, others in anticipation of the Rose Bowl (USC against Michigan ...
Mule Racing Part II
Del Mar
| Sporting Box
Published Aug. 3, 2006
Continuing with Don Jacklin, president of the American Mule Racing Association. He is, by the way, the Jacklin of Jacklin Seed, "one of the world's largest national and international grass-seed research, production, and marketing organizations." Jacklin ...
Field of Screens
Chula Vista
| Cover Story
| Del Mar
| El Cajon
| La Mesa
| Lemon Grove
| Midway
| Santee
Published July 6, 2006
The first drive-in theater I snuck into in San Diego was also the first one built here, the Midway, on the northwest corner of Mission Bay Drive and Sports Arena Boulevard. It was December 1979, and ...
Circumnavigate Del Mar on foot via beach and pine-dotted canyons.
Del Mar
| Roam-O-Rama
Published June 22, 2006
Combining beach, lagoon, crest, and canyon, this looping hike touches upon every natural landscape the community of greater Del Mar (the west-of-Interstate-5 part, anyway) has to offer. On a typical early-summer day, with a tepid temperature ...