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Pioneer of the Nile (the horse) won the Santa Anita Derby this year and will go on to run the Kentucky Derby. Bob Baffert is the trainer and Garrett Gomez is the jockey.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31426
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 5, 2009
Pages
p. C1, C8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 5, 2009
Pages
p. C1, C8
Subjects
Baffert, Bob (trainer)
Chocolate Candy (race horse)
Gomez, Garrett (jockey)
Horses and horse racing
Pioneer of the Nile (race horse) - also spelled Pioneerof the Nile
Rosario, Joel (jockey)
Santa Anita Derby
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Item ID
31619AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Baldwin Park man John Bucalo has lifelong love affair with race horses. His career highlights included training one of Seabiscuit's offspring for the 1949 motion picture "The Story of Seabiscuit."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29440
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 1, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 1, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Bucalo, John
Horse racing
Horse training and trainers
Item ID
29625AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Julien Laparoux rides Einstein to win the Grade I, $1 million Santa Anita Handicap. Helen Pitts is Einstein's trainer.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31407
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2009
Pages
p. C1, C7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2009
Pages
p. C1, C7
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Laparoux, Julien
Pitts, Helen
Santa Anita Handicap
Santa Anita Park 2001-2010
Item ID
31600AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Pamplemousse, a favorite to win the Santa Anita Derby, was scratched from the race due to a lesion on the horse's left front leg tendon.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31427
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 6, 2009
Pages
p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 6, 2009
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Canani, Julio
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Derby
Santa Anita Park -- 2001-2010
Solis, Alex, II
The Pamplemousse (race horse)
Item ID
31620AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Breeders' Cup will be raced at Santa Anita Park on November 6-7, 2009. It will be its second consecutive year and fifth time overall held at Santa Anita Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30919
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 8, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 8, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Breeders' Cup - history
Horse racing
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Item ID
31114AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Pamplemousse, which means "the grapefruit" in French, is a fast colt. Ridden by veteran jockey Alex Solis, The Pamplemousse won the 1-1/8 mile $200,000 Grade III Sham Stakes at Santa Anita Park yesterday. His time 1:47.86 was the fastest in the Sham's 9-year history.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31392
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 1, 2009
Pages
p. C1, C2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 1, 2009
Pages
p. C1, C2
Subjects
Canani, Julio (trainer)
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Solis, Alex (jockey)
Item ID
31585AN
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Newspaper Index
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Jockey Mike Smith, in photo riding Zenyatta (race horse), celebrates winning the Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita Park yesterday.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31800
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 8, 2009
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 8, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010 - Breeders' Cup XXVI
Smith, Mike (jockey)
Zenyatta (race horse)
Item ID
31997AN
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Newspaper Index
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Opening day of its 72nd season of thoroughbred racing at Santa Anita Park brought in 33,112 fans. Santa Anita Park officials were pleased with the turnout.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31335
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2008
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Horse racing
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Item ID
31530AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A profile of Wayne Lucas, horse trainer at Santa Anita Park race track.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26655
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 22, 2003
Pages
p. C1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 22, 2003
Pages
p. C1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Lucas, Wayne
Item ID
26857AN
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Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park race track opened on Christmas Day, 1934. It now celebrates its 70th year. The article recaps the history of the race track.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29357
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 26, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 26, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Santa Anita Park race track - 70th Anniversary
Santa Anita Park 2001 - 2010
Anniversaries
Horse racing history
Strub, Dr. Charles
Seabiscuit
Shoemaker, Willie
Item ID
29541AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park president Ron Charles has announced it will continue to race on its Cushion Track this season. It will undergo some reformulation with polymer and fibers produced by Pro-Ride, an Australian company, so that it will drain properly.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30890
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 16, 2008
Pages
p. Sports 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 16, 2008
Pages
p. Sports 1
Subjects
Charles, Ron
Cushion Track
Horse racing
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Item ID
31078AN
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Newspaper Index
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Lou Carno has been an Arcadia resident for 53 years and is a longtime horse trainer. One of his early jobs was working as a groom for race horse Seabiscuit's owner, C.S. Howard. Carno served in the U.S. Marine Corps, earned his CA Trainers License in 1952. He trained for celebrity horse owners such as Betty Grable, Desi Arnaz, and Burt Bacharach, and others. He is 83 now and semi-retired.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31595
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 3, 2003
Pages
p. 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 3, 2003
Pages
p. 11
Subjects
Carno, Lou - biography
Horse trainers
Item ID
31792AN
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Newspaper Index
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Magna Entertainment Corporation, owners of Santa Anita Park race track, is bidding to purchase the September race dates at the Los Angeles County Fair for September 13-29. The Breeders Cup will be returning to Santa Anita Park next October after a gap of ten years.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30231
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 25, 2002
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 25, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Breeders Cup
Horse racing
Los Angeles County Fair
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Item ID
30418AN
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Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park has come up with two options to solve its drainage issues caused by the Cushion Track. Santa Anita Park president Ron Charles will announce his decision Thursday. Santa Anita had to cancel three consecutive days of horse racing for the first time in its 71-year history, due to heavy rainfall.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30885
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 9, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 9, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Cushion Track
Horse racing - history
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Item ID
31073AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Jockey Rene Douglas returns to Santa Anita Park race track after a brief stint there in the mid-1990s.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29403
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 15, 2005
Pages
p. C1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 15, 2005
Pages
p. C1
Subjects
Douglas, Rene
Jockeys
Santa Anita Park -- 2001 - 2010
Horse racing
Item ID
29587AN
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Newspaper Index
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Oak Tree, Santa Anita Park's fall racing season, begins September 18. Oak Tree hosts the Breeders' Cup for the third time.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32722
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 11, 2003
Pages
p. 18
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 11, 2003
Pages
p. 18
Subjects
Santa Anita Park--2001-2010
Breeders' Cup
Horses and horse racing
Item ID
32919AN
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Newspaper Index
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Two articles describe this coming weekend's Breeders' Cup race at Santa Anita Park. "Unbeaten Zenyatta already looks like a Classic choice," p. B1 and "Smart money may be on Einstein," p. B3.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31778
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 4, 2009
Pages
p. B1 and B3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 4, 2009
Pages
p. B1 and B3
Subjects
Breeders' Cup 2009
Einstein (race horse)
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Zenyatta (race horse)
Item ID
31975AN
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Newspaper Index
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Favored horse Sweet Catomine loses the Santa Anita Derby to Buzzards Bay making Buzzards' trainer Jeff Mullins the first trainer to earn three consecutive wins in the Santa Anita Derby.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29475
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2005
Pages
p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2005
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park race track - 2001-2010
Santa Anita Derby
Race horses
Sweet Catomine
Buzzards Bay
Mullins, Jeff
Item ID
29660AN
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Newspaper Index
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Lava Man, with exercise rider Tony Romero, takes a jog on the Santa Anita Park race track's new surface, a Cushion Track that cost more than $10 million.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30706
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 5, 2007
Pages
p. Sports 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 5, 2007
Pages
p. Sports 1
Subjects
Cushion Track
Horses and horse racing
Lava Man
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Item ID
30894AN
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Newspaper Index
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In this down economy, opening day attendance at the Oak Tree meet at Santa Anita Park was about 17,000, an increase of about 2,000 over last year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31223
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 25, 2008
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 25, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Horse racing
Oak Tree
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Item ID
31418AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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