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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...
Tags: Mike Smith, Triple Crown, Mario Gutierrez, Canada, Kentucky Derby
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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: The New York Times, Kentucky Derby, Equestrian, Broken Bones, Viagra (drug)
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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: Non-durable Goods Industry, Rehoboth Beach, Homes, Interior Design, Ralph Lauren
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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: Athletes, NBC (tv network), Summer Olympics, ABC's Wide World of Sports (tv program), Multi-Sport Events
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Officials betting Pimlico project gives city a boost
Sun StaffThough a Canadian company's plan to demolish Pimlico Race Course and rebuild it from the ground up is still sketchy, city and state officials are already betting the project will give Baltimore a boost and - for better or worse - help bring slot...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Bars and Clubs, Eddie Arcaro, Casino and Gambling
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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: Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Ronald Reagan, Angie Dickinson, Los Angeles Times
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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: Bing Crosby, Restaurants, LeRoy Neiman, Manhattan (New York City), Entertainment Events
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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, Vista, Kentucky Derby, Equestrian, San Diego County (California)
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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: Homes, Eddie Arcaro, Bars and Clubs, Twitter, Inc., Arcadia
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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,"... -
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)
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