Del Mar's fall race meeting begins Friday with an eight-race card, including the featured $75,000 Let It Ride Stakes for 3-year-olds at a mile on the turf. Racing will be conducted over 13 days on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays each week along with a Thanksgiving Day card. The first post will be at 12:30 p.m. each day, except on Thanksgiving, when it will be at 11 a.m. Del Mar Thoroughbred Club President and CEO Joe Harper has been in charge of the racetrack here since 1977. He says there’s a lot to look forward to during the fall races. "We get good horses. Some of the horses come out from the east because the weather's better," he said. "It's good racing. The grass track is in great shape.” Harper says Del Mar has become one of the safest tracks in North America for horses. He says overall, they changed what he called the old timer racing culture. “We started off by looking at where they've been before they got here," he said. "And then we've hired a whole bunch of veterinarians who know these horses. We scatter them around the track in the mornings when they come out here. You really have to look at them and talk to the trainers and sometimes you say, maybe not run that horse.” FULL STORY: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/del-mars-bing-crosby-season-opens-friday/509-27203ce6-5934-4dd1-af77-369b4c929921