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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, Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan, Horse (animal), American Football Conference
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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: Personal Service, Seafood, Luck (tv program), LeRoy Neiman, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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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: Triple Crown, Kentucky Derby, Equestrian, Belmont Stakes, Preakness Stakes
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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,...... -
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: Death, Horse (animal), Social Issues
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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: Super Bowl, Pat Riley, Don Sutton, Wilt Chamberlain, Chick Hearn
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It was always a good day at the races
Special to The TimesIN 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...Tags: Death, Horse (animal), Career and Workplace, Equestrian, World War II (1939-1945)
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L.A.'s high-style high-rise
Times Staff WriterFor a select group of Angelenos, the route to grandma's didn't go over the river and through the woods, but along Sunset to a 32-story Modernist block of stucco and glass built in 1964, a singular apartment house set back from and above the storied...Tags: Doris Day, David Janssen, Joan Collins, Public Employees, Homes
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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...
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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: Broken Bones, Viagra (drug), Injuries and Wounds, Horse and Harness Racing, Kentucky Derby
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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: House and Home, Non-durable Goods Industry, Ralph Lauren, Human Interest, Lewes
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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: Eddie Arcaro, Tickets, Business, Dining and Drinking, Twitter, Inc.
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