Del Mar Racetrack Mural

The Famous Del Mar Racetrack Mural

Artist Pierre “Peb” Bellocq painted a 30-foot-long mural depicting 70 years of thoroughbred horse racing at Del Mar.

Notice though he forgot the Ocean.??



The painting features co-founders Bing Crosby and Pat O’Brien. They are joined by Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, and the horse owners Harry James and Betty Grable, comedic husband-and-wife from I Love Lucy Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and actors Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck.

Jimmy Durante is of course in there Cha Cha Cha Cha...., W. C. Fields and Red Skelton, George Raft and the jockeys Johnny Longden, Laffit Pincay, Jr., Bill Shoemaker, Chris McCarron, Eddie Delahoussaye, George Woolf, Jerry Lambert ,and Ralph Neves. Mike Smith, Alex Solis, and Kent Desormeaux.

Horse Trainers include Farrell and Gary Jones, Tom Smith of Seabiscuit fame, Buster Millerick, Ed Gregson, Bob Baffert, Ron McAnally, Charlie Whittingham, Robert Frankel, Jack Van Berg, Neil Drysdale, and Richard Mandella.

Major Racetrack well knowns were included such as C.S. Howard, E.B. Johnston, Clement Hirsch, John and Betty Mabee, Rex Ellsworth, Robert and Beverly Lewis, Sid and Jenny Craig, and Allen Paulson.

Del Mar’s current President, Joe Harper, sits front and center just above his mom, Cecilia DeMille Harper

The mural, which is on the east wall of the entrance to the track’s Clubhouse/Turf Club gets your attention.