[1] On July 16, 2023, The Stronach Group announced that Golden Gate Fields would close at the end of the 2023 race meet.

Golden Gate Fields racetrack was situated on a tract of land bordered on the west by Fleming Point, a rocky promontory which lies on the eastern shoreline of San Francisco Bay.

He sold it in July 1852 to John Fleming, who used it as a transhipment point for sending his cattle across the bay to San Francisco for slaughter and processing.

Competitive horse racing in this part of the East Bay originated with the Oakland Trotting Track about 2 miles south of the site of Golden Gate Fields, in what is now Emeryville.

[3] Just before World War II, Golden Gate Fields built its grandstand up against the eastern slope of Fleming Point, and adjacent marshland was filled in for the track.

In the period just before the war, the track was used as the scene of the crime central to the plot of the movie Shadow of the Thin Man.

Golden Gate Fields was owned and managed for 25 years by San Francisco foreign car importer and horseman Kjell Qvale.

Golden Gate Fields made history in 2016 when it hired 29-year-old Angela Hermann as its track announcer, succeeding Michael Wrona.

Hermann was the first full-time female race caller in the United States since Ann Elliott worked in the 1960s at Jefferson Downs near New Orleans.

Lost in the Fog's plaque was the third to be placed at Golden Gate Fields, near the one for Silky Sullivan and that for Bill Shoemaker.

Prior to his early death, Lost in the Fog ran three races at his home base — winning twice and placing once.

In their announcement, The Stronach Group president and chief executive Belinda Stronach said that the future success of California racing "depends on a business model that encourages investment in Southern California," referring to Santa Anita Park and the San Luis Rey Downs training facility.

Aidan Butler, CEO of 1/ST Racing (parent company of The Stronach Group), said afterward that a winter-spring meet at Golden Gate in 2024 would be "completely contingent on the outcome of a sitdown.

[16] In 2009, East Shore Charter Lines was contracted to provide the racetrack with a new free service from the BART station.