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Santa Anita gets key racing dates
Santa Anita came away the big winner Thursday when the California Horse Racing Board tentatively approved racing dates for 2014 and 2015 in response to the pending closure of Betfair Hollywood Park on Dec. 22. Santa Anita will expand its usual fall...
Tags: Breeders' Cup, Triple Crown, Sports
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Oxbow's Preakness victory doesn't spoil anything
BALTIMORE — Chances are, the horse racing public will get it wrong again. When Oxbow went wire-to-wire in Saturday's Preakness, again ruining a chance for a Triple Crown, it is likely to prompt hand-wringing among those who see it as the...
Tags: Breeders' Cup, Triple Crown, Equestrian, Kentucky Derby, Sports
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Preakness notes: A different kind of trainer helped Gary Stevens
BALTIMORE — Gary Stevens on Saturday became the oldest jockey to win the Preakness, and the Hall of Famer has Clark Masterson to thank. Masterson, a personal trainer based in Bellevue, Wash., helped the 50-year-old jockey lose 25 pounds and nearly...
Tags: Lotteries, Triple Crown, Equestrian, Kentucky Derby, Sports
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Stakes are highest for Orb in Preakness
BALTIMORE — Horse racing's Preakness is a place of history and a bubble of hope. If you come here with a Kentucky Derby victory under your belt, as trainer Shug McGaughey and Orb have, you have little time to appreciate that history. You are...
Tags: The Jockey Club Incorporated, Triple Crown, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Equestrian, Big Brown
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Preakness host Maryland's horse racing in optimistic state
BALTIMORE — It is difficult to be at the Preakness this year without feeling a tinge of jealousy. That is especially true if you are just a few days removed from a visit to the current dungeon of California racing, a.k.a. Hollywood Park. All...
Tags: Triple Crown, Casino and Gambling Industry, Equestrian, Politics, Philosophy
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Hollywood Park's ghost of a chance casts pall on Southland racing
With its announcement Thursday, Hollywood Park did little to refute the theory that horse racing is a sport in need of hospice. They raced at the Inglewood track Friday, but it wasn't business as usual. Nor will it be the rest of this meeting and the...
Tags: Breeders' Cup, Lobbying, Churchill Downs, Los Angeles International Airport, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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Hollywood Park to close after final autumn meeting race Dec. 22
Everyone knew the day was coming and now it's a reality. After 75 years of horse racing, Betfair Hollywood Park will end its operations following the final race of its autumn meeting Dec. 22. The words "sad day" were repeated often Thursday afternoon at...
Tags: Victor Espinoza, Sports
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Orb wins the 139th Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, KY. — Claude R. “Shug” McGaughey is a man who looks like the embodiment of the nickname that is all anybody calls him by. Short and unassuming, he said this week he made an effort to enjoy the run-up to the Kentucky Derby,...
Tags: Joel Rosario, Triple Crown, Equestrian, Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs
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Orb wins 139th Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Orb splashed through the slop to win the Kentucky Derby, giving Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey his first victory in the race. When the field turned for home on the cool, overcast Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs,...
Tags: Joel Rosario, Equestrian, Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, Sports
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Horse deaths are troubling to Bob Baffert
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — With nary a thought to Hamlet, trainer Bob Baffert is currently suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. In his current situation, and in a world where oft-misinformed social media stirs the rumor pot to a boil,...
Tags: Breeders' Cup, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Equestrian, Churchill Downs, Kentucky Derby
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Goldencents gives Doug O'Neill a Rerun for the Roses
Apparently, trainer Doug O'Neill has taken the name of his most famous horse literally. Saturday, he decided, I'll Have Another. So, here we go again. If race fans have that feeling of "Groundhog Day," nobody could blame them. The O'Neill Show, a...
Tags: Triple Crown, Equestrian, Rogaine (drug), Garrett K. Gomez, Kentucky Derby
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GOP rehab good start, but misdiagnoses some problems
There is much that is brutal and bracing in the 12-step rehab program the ailing Republican Party has enrolled itself in. “Public perception of the party is at record lows," wrote the veteran political practitioners summoned by GOP leaders to...
Tags: Michele Bachmann, Primaries, Parties and Movements, Immigration, Mitt Romney
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