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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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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: Sports Illustrated, Horse (animal), Charles Boyer, Sports, Michael Jackson
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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: Injuries and Wounds, Horse and Harness Racing, Sports, Equestrian, Viagra (drug)
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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, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Los Angeles International Airport, LeRoy Neiman, Chicago Hotels
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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: Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), House and Home, Delaware, Interior Design, Maryland
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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: San Diego (San Diego, California), Equestrian, Vista, Belmont Stakes, Triple Crown
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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,...... -
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: Economy, Business and Finance, Twitter, Inc., Real Estate, Arcadia, YouTube
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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,"... -
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, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment, Mario Andretti, Sports
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Grapes of ardor
Chicago TribuneMany a homeowner has moved into an older home to find an overgrown grapevine on a trellis, fence or telephone pole in the back yard. If it covers an ugly fence, it likely will be left alone. If it looks like it will drag down the garage, it likely will be...Tags: St. Charles (Kane, Illinois), Delaware, Indiana, Agricultural Research and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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: Football, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Vin Scully, University of California, Los Angeles, Entertainment
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