![]() ![]() It remained so for many years, a place to be seen and photographed. Its original backers included Bing Crosby and Walt Disney. Before it was Hollywood Park, it was a bean field, and then when it opened in 1938, a marriage of old Hollywood itself and the erstwhile Sport of Kings. SoFi – it’s called a ``stadium,’’ but it is so breathtaking in scope that it begs for a fresh noun, much like the Astrodome did more than a half century ago – sits on the earth where once sat Hollywood Park, a racetrack (and at times, it seems, a sport) from another time. But also the passage of time and a dimming legacy (not his). The sign bearing his name recognizes a towering personal greatness. ``I’m proud of that street.’’ As he should be: Only one rider in history has won more races than Pincay. ``When they named it, the mayor of Inglewood sent a letter,’’ says Pincay, who retired in 2003 and is now 75. Pincay Drive is ostensibly an homage to Hall of Fame thoroughbred jockey Laffit Pincay, Jr. It is nearly a mile long and dead straight, unremarkable except for the history it holds in six white letters on a green background. Just north of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, home of Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI, a roadway named Pincay Drive connects South Prairie Avenue on the west to Crenshaw Boulevard on the East. ![]()
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