INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA—Archaeologist Thomas Garrison and professor of religion Lynn Swartz Dodd from the University of Southern California and their students exhumed the remains of the legendary racehorse Native Diver, who died in 1967 from colic at the age of eight. He was buried at the Hollywood Park racetrack and given a stone memorial. The track, however, has now closed and will be torn down. Richard Shapiro, grandson of Native Diver’s owners, wanted to move the horse’s remains. “He brought pictures and some of Native Diver’s prizes. He did a little presentation of the horse to the students. It really showed that we’re actually digging up the human past and things people have a connection with,” Garrison explained to The Daily Trojan. Native Diver’s remains will be stored at the Del Mar racetrack until a new burial site is found.
