By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 12:15 EST, 9 March 2014 | UPDATED: 20:54 EST, 9 March 2014 Even in death, legendary American racehorse Native Diver is making moves. The remains of Native Diver are being exhumed at the recently-closed Hollywood Park racetrack to be moved to Del Mar. Native Diver was the seventh thoroughbred to win a million dollars and the first to do so in California. USC students, seen here, helped in the dig Archaeologists Lynn Swartz Dodd said the dig was unusual, because 'Usually archaeologists are digging at sites that are a minimum of 50 years ago or earlier'
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Native Diver was one of the first race horses to earn over a million dollars
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When the thoroughbred died in 1967, it was buried at Hollywood Park
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Hollywood Park closed in December and an archaeology team was brought in to exhume Native Diver's body for reburial in Del Mar
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