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Paddock guard John Shear, a hero who was injured saving a girl from a runaway horse, has returned to work at Santa Anita Park. He turns 91 years old next month. He is a 5 foot tall, 110 pound Sierra Madre resident and sustained a fractured pelvis, internal bleeding and other injuries when he had a head-on collision with horse "Sea and Sage" on March 12, 2011.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32700
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Heroes
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020--employees
Shear, John
Item ID
32897AN
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John Shear (pictured), a 5-foot, 110-pound, 90-year-old paddock supervisor at Santa Anita Park, nearly lost his life when he threw himself in the path of a runaway horse on March 12 to protect a little girl he didn't know. He has worked seasonally for Santa Anita Park for nearly 50 years. He sustained a fractured pelvis and other injuries but is recuperating at home now. He is a hero.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32386
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 23, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 23, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020--employees
Shear, John
Item ID
32584AN
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John Shear is gone but never forgotten at Santa Anita Park. Retired Paddock Captain John Shear died Tuesday at a rehabilitation facility in Arcadia. He was 102 years old.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36603
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
p. B4
Pages
December 15, 2023
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Pasadena Star News
Date
p. B4
Pages
December 15, 2023
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Centenarians
Deaths
Obituaries
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
Santa Anita Park employees
Shear, John
Wilson, Art
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Newspaper Index
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John Shear is turning 93 years old. He is celebrated as an everyday hero. He is a Santa Anita Park racetrack worker whose quick response saved a toddler's life on March 12, 2011. He was hurt then, but is surviving.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33706
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 12, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 12, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Santa Anita Park--People--employees
Shear, John
Item ID
33901AN
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Celebrating ponies and palaces. Santa Anita Park fetes paddock captain John Shear on his 99th birthday.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35645
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 27, 2020
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 27, 2020
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Nonagenarians
Santa Anita Park employees
Shear, John
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Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park track honors retired paddock captain John Shear. He is 100 years old. A plaque was unveiled that honors his commitment to customer service and safety, located just outside the Seabiscuit Walking Ring. Friday was declared John Shear Day. His job was ensuring the safety of the horses and the people around them in the area where horses are saddled and paraded before being taken onto the track.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36062
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
p. A3
Pages
October 2, 2021
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Pasadena Star News
Date
p. A3
Pages
October 2, 2021
Subjects
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
Santa Anita Park employees
Shear, John
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Another horse dies at Santa Anita Park, the twenty-sixth fatality since December 26. Kochees, a 9-year-old gelding, injured in Saturday's sixth race, had to be euthanized.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35517
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 27, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A12
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 27, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A12
Subjects
Euthanasia
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
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Santa Anita Park to unveil Zenyatta statue and renames it autumn stakes' races, as part of its rebranding. The statue of legendary mare Zenyatta, 2010 Horse of the Year, will be in the Paddock Gardens.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33139
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2012
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020
Statuary
Item ID
33336AN
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Breeders' Cup: a classic debate. Horse Bayern veers sharply out of the gate, goes wire to wire, and stays on top after inquiry into the start of the race. Bayern wins the Breeders' Cup Classic. Photos. See also p. B1 and B9 commentary on trainer D. Wayne Lukas and race horse Take Charge Brandi by columnist Mark Whicker. See also p. B8, 35-year-old trainer Chad Brown had a memorable weekend, having saddled 3 Breeders' Cup winners.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34023
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 2, 2014
Pages
p. B1, B8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 2, 2014
Pages
p. B1, B8
Subjects
Breeders' Cup World Championships
Brown, Chad (trainer)
Garcia, Martin (jockey)
Horses and horse racing
Lukas, D. Wayne
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020
Whicker, Mark
Item ID
34217AN
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Paul Graf, 90, of New Albany, Indiana, came back to Arcadia to see Santa Anita Park again. He had been based there as a United States Army staff sergeant during World War II, when the track was turned over to the Army Ordnance Corps for training purposes and was officially renamed Camp Santa Anita. Graf said he used to run for exercise on the Anita Chiquita training track, which was eliminated when the Santa Anita Fashion Park was built in the 1970s. Graf had arrived at Camp Santa Anita around November 1942, after the site had already been used as the Japanese Assembly Center. Photo shows Graf holding an issue of Man O' War, a newspaper issued by army personnel at Camp Santa Anita.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32550
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 27, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 27, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Camp Santa Anita
Graf, Paul
Santa Anita Park--1934-1942
United States Army Ordnance Corps
Veterans--World War II
Item ID
32749AN
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Breeders' Cup. Teen boy dies day after namesake horse wins. Cody's Wish, which won the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile race at Santa Anita Park, was named after 17-year-old Cody Dorman. Cody's Wish won the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile for the second consecutive year. Cody Dorman had Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36577
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 7, 2023
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 7, 2023
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
Breeders' Cup
Dorman, Cody
Horses and horse racing
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Trainer John Sadler, a 54-year old Long Beach native, watched from home with a knee injury, as his trainees Switch, Sidney's Candy, and Twirling Candy) win three stakes races on Santa Anita Park's opening day of the 2010-2011 season, its 74th racing season.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32266
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2010
Pages
p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2010
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Horse trainers
Sadler, John
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010 -- Opening Day 2010
Item ID
32465AN
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Santa Anita Park: horse dies in training incident. Two-year-old colt Derby River is the 27th horse to die since December. He suffered a broken shoulder while galloping and was euthanized. Ruben Gomez was the trainer.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35521
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 7, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 7, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Euthanasia
Gomez, Ruben
Guillermo, Kathy
Horses and horse racing
Martin, Mike
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
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Santa Anita meet opens: no fans but record betting. Santa Anita park began its 84th winter-spring meet yesterday with no audience, but had a record-breaking opening day in betting handle, as $23,003,159 was wagered on the 11-race card. The old record of $20,491,016 was set in 2018. First-year General Manager Nate Newby hopes fans will be allowed back soon. Until such time only essential personnel and horses' owners are allowed to attend races.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35872
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2020
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2020
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Newby, Nate
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
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Dennis Moore, 67 year old track superintendent since November 2014, helps Santa Anita Park race track shine, horses stay safe. He is currently maintaining the racing surfaces at Santa Anita Park, Los Alamitos, and Del Mar.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35046
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 25, 2017
Pages
p. B4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 25, 2017
Pages
p. B4
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Moore, Dennis
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Santa Anita Park-employees
Item ID
35236AN
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Bob Baffer, horse trainer, is denied stay of suspension by Kentucky Horse Racing Commission. He has been suspended for 90 days, effective March 8 through June 5, and was fined $7,500. He was trainer of Medina Spirit, a horse that is now deceased but tested positive for the steroid betamethasone following the Kentucky Derby last May 1. Medina Spirit was stripped of the Kentucky Derby crown and collapsed and died on December 6, 2021 of a heart attack after a trianing run at Santa Anita Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36190
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 26, 2022
Pages
p. B8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 26, 2022
Pages
p. B8
Subjects
Baffert, Bob
Horses and horse racing
Kentucky Derby
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
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Newspaper Index
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Helen Montes, 13-year-old girl, climbing a tree at Arcadia County Park. Photo and caption only.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34122
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 16, 2015
Pages
p. A2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 16, 2015
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Arcadia County Park
Montes, Helen
Item ID
34316AN
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Firefighters used the jaws of life to free a 3-year-old girl who got her knee wedged in a railing.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper22924
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 13, 2002
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 13, 2002
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Eisenhower Park, fire department
Item ID
23132AN
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Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park: another horse dies; summary on its way. Death is fifth in month; The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) report on past meet is due in December. GQ Covergirl, a 6-year-old mare trained by Doug O'Neill injured her front legs Friday on Santa Anita's training track and was euthanized.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35575
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 26, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 26, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
California Horse Racing Board (CHRB)
Euthanasia
Horses and horse racing
O'Neill, Doug
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
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Twenty-six year old Peruvian jockey Rafael Bejarano has dominated the southern California racing circuit since moving here full-time late last year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31232
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 25, 2008
Pages
p. C1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 25, 2008
Pages
p. C1
Subjects
Bejarano, Rafael
Horse racing
Jockeys
Santa Anita Park - Oak Tree
Item ID
31432AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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