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Bob Baffert has awesome day again
Saturday at Santa Anita was a great day for Bob Baffert, for Baffert fans, and for fans of soap opera drama. Baffert, a long-proven masterful trainer of thoroughbreds, won three of the five Grade I races, each worth $250,000, that qualified the winner...
Tags: Victor Espinoza, Rafael Bejarano, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Sports, Trips and Vacations
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Jack Disney has lived, breathed and written of SoCal's sports icons
An athlete plays 15 or 20 years, retires and there is great fanfare upon his departure. Maybe tears, maybe gifts given, maybe his number hung in honor. Los Angeles' very own Jack Disney calls it a day and he's just gone. Disney is good people. There...
Tags: Frank Sinatra, Los Angeles Dodgers, Jerry West, Newspaper and Magazine, Barbra Streisand
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Edward Vincent dies at 78; first black mayor of Inglewood
Edward Vincent was a year away from making history in 1983 as Inglewood's first black mayor when he heard a woman screaming on a city street that her purse had been snatched and decided "to practice what I've been preaching." At the time, he was a city...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, John Burton, NFL Draft, Knee Replacement, Democratic Party
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Trainer Bob Baffert: The silver-haired dude with a golden touch
The oft-troubled sport of thoroughbred horse racing may have a solution for its well-documented woes right in its midst. All it needs to do is clone Bob Baffert. Baffert, the white-haired trainer with the fast one-liners and faster horses, ruled the...
Tags: Kentucky Derby, Bill Dwyre, Joe Torre, Rafael Bejarano, Los Angeles Times Columnists
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LeRoy Neiman dies at 91; artist depicted sports in bold strokes
LeRoy Neiman, a wildly successful American artist who was famous for his colorful portraits of athletes in motion and who became an artistic fixture at such major sporting events as the Olympics and the Super Bowl, has died. He was 91.
Neiman, who was...Tags: Obituaries, Hugh Hefner, LeRoy Neiman, Frank Sinatra, Newspaper and Magazine
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California racing board suspends trainer Doug O'Neill
Trainer Doug O’Neill has been suspended by the California Horse Racing Board for 45 days because one of his horses tested positive for high levels of carbon dioxide in 2010. O’Neill’s punishment won’t start before July 1, allowing...
Tags: Belmont Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Sports, Preakness Stakes, Triple Crown
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Assemblyman Hall attended Kentucky Derby as fact-finder, fundraiser
PolitiCalAssemblyman Isadore Hall III (D-Compton) takes fact-finding trip to Kentucky Derby. He said taxpayers did not pay for his trip and he did not bet on a horse.... -
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, Sports Illustrated, American Football Conference, Charles Boyer, Bing Crosby
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Lloyd Arnold dies at 83; helped revive harness racing in California
Lloyd Arnold, the former co-owner of Los Alamitos Race Course who helped revive harness racing in Southern California in the 1980s, died Sunday in La Quinta. He was 83 and had cancer.
"He made harness racing on the West Coast," said Kirk Breed, executive...Tags: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cancer, Government, Politics, Auction Service
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Rachel Alexandra gives birth to a colt in Kentucky
Sports NowThe 2009 Horse of the Year, Rachel Alexandra, has become a mommy. Rachel Alexandra gave birth Sunday to a 125-pound colt by Curlin, who was the Horse of the Year in 2007 and 2008. The colt has a white star...... -
Breeders' Cup returns to NBC under multiyear deal
Sports NowThe Breeders' Cup World Championships are returning to NBC starting with this fall's event Nov. 2-3 at Santa Anita Park. NBC Sports and the Breeders' Cup announced a multiyear agreement on Monday to televise horse racing's world championships, including...
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