{"id":488446,"date":"2026-10-07T21:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488446\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:33:13","slug":"horse-statue-stolen-from-del-paso-boulevard-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488446\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse statue stolen from Del Paso Boulevard in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"

(FOX40.COM) \u2014 A beloved horse statue went missing in Sacramento, and it\u2019s not the first time an animal-shaped landmark has been stolen in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A statue of Ben Ali \u2014 California\u2019s first-ever Kentucky Derby winner \u2014 was reported missing from its home on Del Paso Boulevard across from the Sacramento Youth Center on Wednesday, the Sacramento Police Department said.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>A statue honoring Ben Ali, before it was reported missing from Del Paso Boulevard in Sacramento on Sept. 30, 2026<\/p>\n

The horse that the life-size bronze statue commemorates is named after its owner: James Ben Ali Haggin. A 1946 article from a horse-breeding publication described Haggin as \u201cfar and away the most successful as well as the most colorful breeder and racing man of his day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haggin created a thoroughbred breeding center on Rancho del Paso near Sacramento in 1873, hence the statue of his Triple Crown-winning horse on Del Paso Boulevard, according to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The statue stood for nearly two decades before it went missing Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The location on Del Paso Boulevard that previously had a Ben Ali horse statue<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first bronze animal statue to go missing in Northern California this past year. A ram was reported stolen<\/a> in Dixon on New Year\u2019s Eve. In January, a business near the statue offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the thief\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n

The Sacramento Police Department is actively investigating the theft. Anyone with information on Ben Ali\u2019s whereabouts is asked to contact the department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(FOX40.COM) \u2014 A beloved horse statue went missing in Sacramento, and it\u2019s not the first time an animal-shaped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-488446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}