HORSE RACING
The 14-1 longshot convincingly wins the $110,400 Railbird at Hollywood Park.

latimes.com
May 11, 2008
HORSE RACING
He goes off at 9-1 odds and beats heavily favored Champs Elysees by a nose. >>

HORSE RACING / INSIDER TRADING
She went three for three at Santa Anita to start her career. >>

HORSE RACING / LOS ALAMITOS
The gelding, who lost a five-length lead on April 24, takes a drop in class. >>

May 10, 2008
HORSE RACING
Also entered is defending champion On The Acorn. The $250,000 Grade II race at Hollywood Park is named in honor of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Times columnist Jim Murray. >>

May 9, 2008
HORSE RACING / INSIDER TRADING
Trainer, who won six of the first 13 Murray handicaps, hasn't won the race since 2002. >>

May 7, 2008
HORSE RACING
The trainer of Kentucky Derby runner-up Eight Belles today ordered drug testing as part of the autopsy, intent on dispelling any suggestion the fallen filly may have been on steroids. >>

May 9, 2008
HORSE RACING / LOS ALAMITOS
The two 2-year-olds, who are each entered in the eighth race at Los Alamitos, boast impressive bloodlines. >>

HORSE RACING / INSIDER TRADING
Bahama Mama was cited for interference in her last race at Santa Anita and dropped to fourth. >>

HORSE RACING / LOS ALAMITOS
The race is a $50,000 claimer at 300 yards. >>

May 8, 2008
HORSE RACING / INSIDER TRADING
Gelding took to the turf at Santa Anita for trainer Mitchell and now tries two turns. >>

May 6, 2008
HORSE RACING
The trainer of euthanized filly Eight Belles adamantly defended the way jockey Gabriel Saez handled the Kentucky Derby runner-up. >>

May 8, 2008
HORSE RACING / LOS ALAMITOS
The gelding's two victories have come at that distance. >>

May 7, 2008
HORSE RACING / INSIDER TRADING
The pool will start at $410,599, which carried over from Derby Day. >>

May 6, 2008
BILL DWYRE
With the death of filly Eight Belles moments after finishing second at the Kentucky Derby, the sport again faces scrutiny. >>

HORSE RACING / COMMENTARY
There are inherent risks in horse racing, as the euthanasia of Eight Belles at the Kentucky Derby proves. But to compare the sport to bullfighting and dog racing is preposterous. >>

HORSE RACING
The list is notable and includes most recently Eight Belles, the filly at the Kentucky Derby, as well as Ruffian, who was injured in a match race in 1975. >>

May 5, 2008
Big Brown's trainer is cautiously optimistic about his chances at Triple Crown. Racing community mourns loss of Eight Belles. >>

HORSE RACING
The consistent 4-year-old Tiznow filly wins for the seventh time in 17 starts, taking the $108,500 Hawthorne Handicap at Hollywood Park. >>

May 4, 2008
HORSE RACING
One of racing's biggest days is marred by tragedy after the only filly in the field collapses following a second-place finish. >>

KENTUCKY DERBY
Eight Belles euthanized after finishing second to favorite Big Brown. >>

HORSE RACING / INSIDER TRADING
The 4-year-old Honour And Glory filly has won two of three over the main track at Hollywood Park. >>

May 3, 2008
HORSE RACING
Jockey Desormeaux says that starting from the outside post could help the favorite. Colonel John and Pyro are next two choices. Bob Black Jack could be the feel-good story. >>

March 30, 2006
125 YEARS | THE TRACK
IN 1982, there was a wonderful documentary film about the Weavers, the blacklisted folk singers, subtitled, "Wasn't That a Time!" Wistful California racetrack operators could use the same words to describe the so-called golden age of horse racing, which had an incredibly long run, arguably until the 1980s, before the start of a downward spiral that grips the sport still. >>

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