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PLEASANTON, Calif. — It was a child’s drawing — the kind of sweet, simple sketch you hang on the refrigerator — but something about the family portrait was off.

The 44-year-old former criminal prosecutor has represented a moderately well-off slice of the East Bay suburbs — Fremont, Livermore, Pleasanton among them — for the last dozen years.

The earthquake occurred one mile from Pleasanton, San Ramon and Castro Valley and two miles from Hayward.

“It takes time. You can’t just run with the first probable answer,” said Stewart Gary, a public safety consultant with Citygate Associates and former fire chief of the Livermore–Pleasanton Fire Department.

After the Stronach Group, owner of Santa Anita and Gulfstream, closed Golden Gate Fields in Northern California, a plan has been offered whereby horses there can train at Pleasanton and Santa Anita would pay for them to be vanned south for possibly a fourth day of racing.