Newspaper page from sports section of L.A. Sunday Times reporting opening of Santa Anita Park, built by "Lucky" Baldwin and opened December 1907. See more legible hard copy in VF Baldwin, Elias J.-Horses and horse racing.
Copy of pages for part of first and second races from racing program for Santa Anita Park, April 13, 1909. Left hand page includes an ad for the Southern Pacific Railway.
1. Bibliography on Baldwin's horses, race horses and racing. 2. "Baldwin's racers: a good season for Santa Anita Stable." News clip, October 9, 1890. 3. "Cruzados is a crack colt." San Francisco Examiner, December 22, 1901. 4. Catalog of thoroughbred yearlings ... property of E.J. Baldwin, Auc…
1. Bibliography on Baldwin's horses, race horses and racing.
2. "Baldwin's racers: a good season for Santa Anita Stable." News clip, October 9, 1890.
3. "Cruzados is a crack colt." San Francisco Examiner, December 22, 1901.
4. Catalog of thoroughbred yearlings ... property of E.J. Baldwin, Auction 1897. 32 page booklet copied at the Bancroft Library, acquired April 1982.
5. Jockey license of Richard Herman Schierske signed by E.J. "Lucky" Baldwin. Copy of original loaned by his son, R. Schierske.
6. Marriage license for Herman Schierske, jockey for E.J. Baldwin, February, 1908. Copy of original.
7. "Rider killed at Santa Anita; no racing today on account of death of E.J. Baldwin." San Francisco Chronicle, March 2, 1909.
8. "Baldwin horses were record makers." San Francisco Chronicle, March 2, 1909.
9. "Breeder's meet opens a triumph." Oakland, CA Tribune, August 22, 1915.
10. "Ed Cerbin secures fine stock of horses." San Francisco Bulletin, February 25, 1916.
11. "Four American Derby winners buried under Maltese Cross." Arcadia News Forecast, December 7, 1934.
12. "Lucky Baldwin days at Santa Anita." Westways, December 1935, Page 26-27.
13. Copies from 'The History of Thoroughbred Racing in America' by W.H.P. Robertson regarding Baldwin horses and horse racing. 798.4 R.
14. "E.J. Baldwin, Esq." From 'The Builders of the Commonwealth' by H.H. Bancroft.
15. "Races fulfill Lucky's dream." Arcadia Tribune, April 13, 1978.
16. "A history of the thoroughbred in California, Part II." The Thoroughbred of California, December 1978.
17. "What Rey El Santa Anita did for California racing." Los Angeles Times, June 16, 1939.
18. "Pioneer horseman not forgotten in valley." Pasadena Star News, October 18, 1939.
19. "Lucky Baldwin's old colors in national racing museum." Press release from Santa Anita Park.
20. "The thing I guess I'm most proud of happened in 1967 at Lexington, Kentucky." New Yorker, April 13, 1981. Article about relocating the grave of Isaac Murphy to Lexington.
21. Typed information on Baldwin jockeys.
22. "Lucky Baldwin's racing school." The Thoroughbred of California, June 1994, pages 38-46. Article on school; jockey Isaac Murphy; and nationally famous farrier, John Isaac Wesley Fisher.
23. Article on E.J. Baldwin's famous horse, Volante. Monrovia Planet, March 12, 1887, page 2.
24. "Baldwin's stables." Monrovia Planet, April 30, 1887, page 1.
25. "The Santa Anita Stables." Monrovia Messenger, April 18, 1889, page 6.
27. "The golden age of the California horse." The Thoroughbred of California, February 1947. John Hervey article includes Lucky Baldwin.
28. Article on thoroughbred industry by Carleton F. Burke. The Thoroughbred of California, May 1947.
29. "Rey El Santa Anita is dead." Los Angeles Daily Times, July 2, 1919.
30. Burke, Carleton, "Pastime of Millions," The Thoroughbred, Volume IV, Number 6, page 10+.
31. Ibid. The Thoroughbred. Volume IV, Number 8, page 16+.
32 Ibid. The Thoroughbred. Volume IV, Number 10, page 14+.
33. Ibid. The Thoroughbred. Volume IV, Number 11, page 8+.
34. Ibid. The Thoroughbred. Volume IV, Number 12-13, Page 16+.
35. Ibid. The Thoroughbred. Volume IV, Number 14, page 26+.
36. Lucky Baldwin's Flyers: Volante and the others to leave Santa Anita. New York Times, April 16, 1877.
37. Will please racegoers: Lucky Baldwin's horses barred from all race tracks. May not be able to race abroad. Santa Anita horses have long been under suspicion. New York Times, October 21, 1895.
38. Stewards reply to Baldwin: decline to reconsider their decision to reject his entries. New York Times, October 23, 1895.
39. Santa Anita Track has no prospects (tells of the coming end of racing at Baldwin's Santa Anita Park when State of California will close it with the ban on horse racing, effective April 20, 1909). Los Angeles Times, March 21, 1909. One copy is article itself, one copy is of the whole page view.
40. Fortunes are lost or won at Arcadia. Newspaper page from sports section of Los Angeles Sunday Times reporting opening of Santa Anita Park, built by "Lucky" Baldwin and opened December 1907. Dated December 8, 1907. These are more legible copies of photo 551.
41. Biography and images of Alexander MacMillan Allan, the architect of Lucky Baldwin's original Santa Anita Race Track. Image of race track in 1907. He lived at Point Lobos in Monterey County, California.
Photo of complimentary day pass to 1908-1909 season at Baldwin's Santa Anita Race Track signed by F.G. Randle, secretary and treasurer of Los Angeles Racing Association.
Many horses with riders are seen galloping west across infield of original Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin Santa Anita Race Track. We were told by Vesta Tucker Reeves, that the infield was used for rodeos when racing season was not in progress. This apparently was taken from grandstand.
Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin sitting in his box at his Santa Anita Race Track. The box has curved railing and side. There appear to be five women in box with him and also two men. Baldwin wears his familiar black slouch hat.
Photo of front page of the Los Angeles Times of April 3, 1909 with picture of Lily Bennett Baldwin and article about estate she inherited on death of Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin.
Photographically reproduced copy of an old newspaper photo taken in 1936 which is an aerial view looking north west over original race track built by Baldwin. In lower right corner can be seen Santa Anita Ave lined with Eucalyptus. On lower left, one can see present Campus Drive. Across top third of photo, one can see Huntington Drive. Note how small the trees are that line the street.
Panorama of Santa Anita Race Track built by E.J."Lucky" Baldwin and opened December 7, 1907. Main club house with three cupolos atop is on left. There are about 8 jockeys and their mounts on track and the grandstand is filled.
Late afternoon shadows show in this photo of 10 horses and riders competing in a race at Baldwin's original race track. Grandstand is seen on the right with capacity crowd. Photo was taken from in the infield. Trees seen in distance would be along Santa Anita Ave.
Two jockeys on two horses, each horse being held by a handler. Jockey on left is Richard Herman Shierske, who raced under the name Richard Herman and had a jockey license signed by Baldwin, dated 1909.
Large stone Maltese Cross erected on the Baldwin Ranch by Anita Baldwin, marking graves of the four American Derby winners owned by her father, Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin. The cross and horse's graves are now situated at the Santa Anita Race Track. There is a sign with all details of horses' names and races won.
1. "Behind famous trotters with Budd Doble." Articles written by daughter Rosebudd Doble Mullender and excerpts by Bill Brandt, from his radio broadcast of April 24, 1946. 2. "King of Sports: An introduction to horseracing." Booklet prepared by TRA Service Bureau and distributed by Santa Anita Par…
1. "Behind famous trotters with Budd Doble." Articles written by daughter Rosebudd Doble Mullender and excerpts by Bill Brandt, from his radio broadcast of April 24, 1946.
2. "King of Sports: An introduction to horseracing." Booklet prepared by TRA Service Bureau and distributed by Santa Anita Park, 32 pages.
Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin in buggy hitched to a dark horse. Baldwin is figure on left. Seated next to him is W. McClelland who was Baldwin's horse trainer at this time. Standing beside buggy is an unidentified young man. Other mounted horsemen, black as well as white, are shown on track. This was taken at Baldwin's training track which was adjacent to present Michillinda near Colorado Boulevard. Etched on photo is: "E.J. Baldwin and J. McClelland on the track - Santa Anieta." (Anieta is misspelled and should be Anita.)
These two long buildings appear to be buildings at the Balloon School. They have been left from the time that "Lucky" Baldwin's Santa Anita Race Track was on this site. There is considerable snow on San Gabriel Mountains behind.
Studio portrait of Anita Baldwin. She is wearing a dress which appears to be voile with coin-sized dots. Photographers name is on portrait but it is not legible.
Santa Anita Park looking across the track toward grandstand. There is a sulky and driver on the track. This photo appears on xerox of material from Santa Anita Park vertical file (Arcadia-Santa Anita Park-1907-1912 #8).
Three people are standing in front of stable area of Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin's Santa Anita Race Track. L-R: Mrs. John (Ella) Ott; eldest son, Donald; and City Marshall, John Ott. (Their daughter told us in 1980 that everyone called her father Jack.) Mrs. Ott is wearing a lavishly feathered hat and a tailored suit. Marshall Ott is wearing a dark double-breasted suit with his badge.