TRACY GANTZ
CTBA History
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More modern additions have been made in the decades following the establishment of the Carleton F. Burke Library at the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association
Genesis of the Burke Library A VOYAGE THROUGH HORSE RACING HISTORY
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BY TRACY GANTZ
n the near future, the Carleton F. Burke Memorial Library will transition to California Polytechnic University, Pomona, where it will continue to be available locally. Cal Poly also has the resources to make some of the library’s volumes available digitally, with worldwide access via the Internet. None of these technologies were available, of course, when the California Toroughbred Breeders Association began the creation of a library in the late 1950s. Te idea
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of a library grew out of the CTBA’s move to 201 Colorado Place in Arcadia, ofces the organization maintains to this day. Te creation of the California Toroughbred Breeders Foundation, now the California Toroughbred Foundation, allowed for easier donations to the library, which was formally dedicated in 1964. Two years later noted Turf writer and racing historian B.K. Beckwith began a series of articles about the library in this magazine, then known as Te Toroughbred of California. His frst article, printed in the June 1966 issue, reported on the creation and development of the
