Gossip Friday: New Years Eve at the Races

From December 31, 1939:

California raised the curtain on its fifth winter horse-racing season today when a record opening turnout of 40,000 watched Neil McCarthy’s entry, Dear Diary and Morning Breeze, run one-two in a $10,000 added stakes for home bred two-year-olds…

Scores of prominent film personalities mingled in the exclusive turf club, among them Cary Grant and Virginia Pine, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Bing Crosby and his wife, the former Dixie Lee, Joe E. Brown, Al Jolson, Constance Bennett and dozens of others.