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Mailbag topic-George "The Iceman" Woolf was a Canadian jockey famous for riding the great Seabiscuit to victories in 1938. The 35-year-old was unseated from his horse Please Me during a race on January 3, 1946, suffered a concussion and died the next day. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. Gene Autry sane at his funeral.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36439
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 17, 2023
Pages
p. B8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 17, 2023
Pages
p. B8
Subjects
Woolf, George
Horses and horse racing
Jockeys
Santa Anita Park
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Javier Castellano gets prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award at Santa Anita Park. The Woolf Award has been presented annually since 1950. Winner determined by a vote of jockeys nationwide.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36437
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 20, 2023
Pages
p. B8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 20, 2023
Pages
p. B8
Subjects
Castellano, Javier
George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Horse racing at Santa Anita. Derby Darlings. Roadster, Game Winner are strong 1-2 punch in Santa Anita Derby for trainer Bob Baffert. Santa Anita Derby is a prep race for Kentucky Derby.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35414
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2019
Pages
p. B1, B9
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2019
Pages
p. B1, B9
Subjects
Baffert, Bob
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Smith, Mike (jockey)
Item ID
35606AN
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Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Derby runs today. A race horse named Creative Cause is the 6-to-5 favorite to win today and may be the West Coast's top Kentucky Derby prospect. With Jockey Joel Rosario (photo).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32913
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2012
Pages
p. C1, C2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2012
Pages
p. C1, C2
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Rosario, Joel (jockey)
Santa Anita Derby
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020
Item ID
33110AN
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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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Recap of Santa Anita Derby. Victor Espinoza rides horse "Midnight Interlude" to win the Santa Anita Derby. The horse was trained by Bob Baffert.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2011
Pages
p. C1, C9
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2011
Pages
p. C1, C9
Subjects
Baffert, Bob
Espinoza, Victor (jockey)
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020--Santa Anita Derby
Item ID
32572AN
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Race horse Exaggerator is going to the Kentucky Derby after a victory at Santa Anita Derby Day. Race horse California Chrome is back on track now, 2 years after wins at Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes and he might be better than before.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2016
Pages
p. A1, A9, B1, B10
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2016
Pages
p. A1, A9, B1, B10
Subjects
Desormeaux, Kent
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020-Santa Anita Derby
Item ID
34700AN
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Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park primed for historic day with Derby and Gold Cup, to run on the same day. The Santa Anita Derby was postponed from its original April 4 date because of coronavirus.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 6, 2020
Pages
p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 6, 2020
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Coronavirus
COVID-19
Horses and horse racing
Pandemics
Santa Anita Derby
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
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Art Wilson recounts the history of the Santa Anita Derby and gives facts and figures of past winners.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 8, 2011
Pages
p. C1, C4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 8, 2011
Pages
p. C1, C4
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020--Santa Anita Derby
Wilson, Art
Item ID
32569AN
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Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park. No horse injuries but fewer fans in stands. On Santa Anita Derby Day, the track attendance was 30,713, the third smallest in the past 75 runnings of the Santa Anita Derby, about 5,000 below the recent average. Spate of equine deaths might have taken toll on attendance. Jockey Mike Smith (pictured) celebrates after riding Roadster to victory in the Santa Anita Derby. Animal welfare protesters were present, and attendance was down, but no racing injuries were reported.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35412
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A13
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A13
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Smith, Mike (jockey)
Item ID
35605AN
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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.

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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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Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit stripped of crown. Medina Spirit is no longer the winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby. The colt died unexpectedly in December 2021 at Santa Anita Park and was unofficially disqualified by Kentucky racing officials yesterday for failing a drug test after winning the race. This ruling is a blow for famed trainer Bob Baffert.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36181
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 22, 2022
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 22, 2022
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Baffert, Bob
Horses and horse racing
Kentucky Derby
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
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Newspaper Index
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Practical Move is favorite horse. Facts about today's 86th running of the Santa Anita Derby. -Bob Baffert has won the race a record 9 times. -The race has produced 19 Kentucky Derby winners. -Practical Move (race horse) is the 8-5 favorite, followed by Geaux Rocket Ride and National Treasure.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36467
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 8, 2023
Pages
p. B1, B9
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 8, 2023
Pages
p. B1, B9
Subjects
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
Santa Anita Derby
Horses and horse racing
Baffert, Bob
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Jockey Frankie Dettori wins near-record 6 races in the Santa Anita Derby at Santa Anita Park on Saturday, April 6.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36669
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2024
Pages
p. B9
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2024
Pages
p. B9
Subjects
Dettori, Frankie
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
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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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Newspaper
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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Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin's Maltese Cross has been dedicated as a memorial. It rests on the graves of his four American Derby winning horses.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33012
Newspaper
The Journal
Date
January 11, 1950
Pages
p. 1 (See basement box 112.)
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Newspaper
The Journal
Date
January 11, 1950
Pages
p. 1 (See basement box 112.)
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias Jackson "Lucky"
Horses and horse racing
Item ID
33209AN
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A horse named Tough Sunday, born blind and deaf, defies all odds and will compete in the California Cup Derby on January 24 at Santa Anita Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34064
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 11, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 11, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020
Alexander, Nick
Horses and horse racing
Item ID
34258AN
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Gift Box, Sadler bring it all back home to Santa Anita. Recap of Santa Anita Derby at Santa Anita Park by columnist Mark Whicker.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35415
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2019
Pages
p. B1, B8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2019
Pages
p. B1, B8
Subjects
Baffert, Bob
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Sadler, John
Whicker, Mark
Item ID
35607AN
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Next stop for race horse called California Chrome: Kentucky. Colt crushes at Santa Anita Derby to emerge as Churchill Downs favorite. Jockey Victor Espinoza in photo.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33796
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 6, 2014
Pages
p. A1 and B1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 6, 2014
Pages
p. A1 and B1
Subjects
Espinoza, Victor (jockey)
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020
Item ID
33991AN
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A swollen tendon sidelines horse called "I'll Have Another," that won the Santa Anita Derby in April and was a Triple Crown hopeful. The colt has been retired to stud.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32988
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 9, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A7 and C1, C2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 9, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A7 and C1, C2
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Item ID
33185AN
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Newspaper Index
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