World & Nation
Twin tales of mercenary nuns, involving racehorses, luxury cars and pink bathrooms, were described Thursday by a Roman Catholic Church spokesman as “something right out of ‘Dallas’ or ‘Dynasty.’ ” The Bruges Diocese was rocked this month by two bizarre episodes: The conversion of a convent into a luxury hotel by a defrocked nun and the sale of another convent by eight nuns who fled in a limousine to the south of France.
March 30, 1990
Sports
Trade watchers say they hate to nag, but there’s another industry where the Japanese don’t compete fairly: horse racing.
Nov. 25, 1992
Lakers
Trainer Doug O’Neill giddy over Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol becoming racehorse owners
May 9, 2012
Favorite expense report ever (and quite possibly my last): DESCRIPTION/PURPOSE: The next Secretariat.
May 4, 2016
Opinion
To the editor: The cruelty inherent in horse racing is difficult enough to digest, but what really nauseates me is the hedonistic underpinnings of why such competition exists.
April 2, 2019
Money & Company
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Aug. 27, 2008
Slim pickings for racehorse owners
Nov. 2, 2009
Nestled deep in the blue-ribbon horse country of southern Ventura County, wrapped softly in a late-morning haze, the ranch of millionaire developer David H.
Nov. 25, 1989
A $35,000 racehorse being taken to a track in New Jersey was killed when the trailer carrying it jackknifed into a guardrail on Interstate 95, throwing it down an embankment.
Jan. 20, 1989
California
Native Diver is being exhumed at the former Hollywood Park racetrack, and he’ll be stored at Del Mar until a new burial spot is prepared.
March 8, 2014