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Jockey is perfect fit for I'll Have Another
– Now, he's the burgeoning star with a sly smile on his face and steady answer to every question, even as the weight of racing history should be pressing upon him. But when Glen Todd first met Mario Gutierrez six years ago, the owner and jockey...
Tags: Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes, Mario Gutierrez, Mike Smith, Mexico
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Despite push for change, horse racing conditions may be getting worse
The Baltimore SunIt takes a few seconds to realize what you are looking at. The Sunday cover of The New York Times always features one of the very best photographs taken in the world that week, and those shots are very often quite jarring. In some faraway land, you often...Tags: Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Viagra (drug), Sports, Horse and Harness Racing
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Marje Everett dies at 90; legendary figure in horse racing
Marje Everett, a legendary and controversial figure in the sport of horse racing for more than four decades and the chief executive of the Hollywood Park racetrack for six years, has died. She was 90.
Everett's longtime associate, Dorothy Carter, said...Tags: James Stewart, Cary Grant, Charles Boyer, Sports, Horse and Harness Racing
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Hot tips on California's premier racetracks
California is home to more racetracks than any other state, with four dominant tracks and a dozen lesser venues, such as state fairs, where thoroughbreds line up shoulder to shoulder. The majors tend to be tributes to Old California. Each of the Big...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Personal Service, Salads, Seafood, Entertainment Events
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Shore boutiques offer laid-back looks for home
It's beach season! Time for a week, if you are lucky, on the coast to enjoy all that the Maryland and Delaware shores have to offer — including some really great shopping.
With a built-in captive audience of second-home owners, the Mid-Atlantic...Tags: Non-durable Goods Industry, Human Interest, Rehoboth Beach, Europe, Lewes
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Jim Murray, May 22, 1961
The Daily MirrorMay 22, 1961: A horse, left to his own devices, would no more run a race for his daily oats than you would wrestle the butcher two out of three for a pork chop. It's that pest on his back,...... -
PASSINGS: Bill Harmatz
Bill Harmatz, 79, a thoroughbred jockey who rode Royal Orbit to victory in the 1959 Preakness Stakes, died Thursday at his home in the San Diego County city of Vista, his daughter Sue Harmatz said. He had cancer.
Harmatz began racing professionally at...Tags: Belmont Stakes, Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Equestrian, Human Interest
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SANTA ANITA OPENS
Gayle Anderson was live in Arcadia for "SANTA ANITA PARK OPENS". Santa Anita Park will open its gates for its traditional winter/spring meeting on Sunday, December 26th. This historic racing venue first opened on December 25, 1934 and is the longest...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Economy, Business and Finance, Business, Real Estate, Homes
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Third title in works
SEAL BEACH — Every day around lunchtime, Kristen Case sends her Newport Harbor High girls' tennis team some food for thought. Case texts her players an inspirational saying. "Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete,"... -
Mary Elizabeth Florsheim Bradley dies at 90; prominent figure in Southland racing
Mary Elizabeth Florsheim Bradley, a prominent figure in Thoroughbred racing in Southern California and the daughter of a well-known Chicago shoe businessman, died Feb. 5 of natural causes at her home in Rancho Santa Fe, her family said. She was 90....Tags: Social Issues, Horse (animal), Death
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Remembering Jim McKay
Baltimoresun.com staffHere's what members of the national media are saying about the late Jim McKay, who died Saturday at 86: • ESPN.com's Jeremy Schaap remembers McKay as "a reporter with the soul of a poet": McKay was special not just because he was a solid reporter...Tags: Indianapolis 500, Bob Costas, ABC (tv network), Athletes, Death
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Featured players
Times Staff WriterIN the big inning, there was Koufax. Baseball cradled in his left hand, his flinty eyes staring down another strikeout victim, he was the quintessential Los Angeles sports superstar of the mid-20th century, a larger-than-life mythic figure to a city...Tags: Eric Dickerson, Nolan Ryan, Dick Enberg, National Collegiate Athletic Association, World Series
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