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Profile and biography of jockey George Woolf, also known as Iceman. Woolf rode race horse Seabiscuit to fame in 1938. He died in 1946. There is a statue in his memory at Santa Anita Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33305
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 2, 2001
Pages
p. 1, 9
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 2, 2001
Pages
p. 1, 9
Subjects
Jockeys
Statuary
Woolf, George
Item ID
33501AN
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The California Horse Racing Board is conducting a study on the effects of synthetic tracks on racing injuries.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31364
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 25, 2009
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 25, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
California Horse Racing Board
Horses and horse racing
Pro-Ride synthetic track
Safety
Item ID
31559AN
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Newspaper Index
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Art Wilson writes about some of the famous names in Santa Anita Park's 75 year history, including Charlie Whittingham, Bill Shoemaker, Laffit Pincay, Jr., Seabiscuit, Citation and John Henry.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31855
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 25, 2009
Pages
p. C1, C2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 25, 2009
Pages
p. C1, C2
Subjects
Citation (race horse)
John Henry (race horse)
Pincay, Laffit, Jr.
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010 -75th anniversary
Seabiscuit (race horse)
Shoemaker, Bill
Whittingham, Charlie
Item ID
32052AN
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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
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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
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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
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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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Arcadia City Council voted 4 to 1 against a suggestion to rename El Monte Avenue in memory of the legendary horse Seabiscuit.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28938
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 5, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 5, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Street Names
Seabiscuit
Arcadia City Council
Item ID
29127AN
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Hall of Fame jockey Sandy Hawley wins the Living Legends Race riding a horse called Tribal Chief.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31260
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 19, 2008
Pages
p. C1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 19, 2008
Pages
p. C1
Subjects
Cordero, Angel, Jr.
Day, Pat
Delahoussaye, Eddie
Hawley, Sandy
Krone, Julie
McCarron, Chris
Pincay, Laffit, Jr.
Santa Anita Park - Living Legends Race
Stevens, Gary
Vasquez, Jacinto
Velasquez, Jorge
Item ID
31455AN
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Governor Gray Davis has signed into law a bill allowing telephone and Internet wagering on horse races in California. The bill was authored by Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33320
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 16, 2001
Pages
p. 9
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 16, 2001
Pages
p. 9
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
California laws
Item ID
33516AN
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The article describes an "old school" horse trainer and fan who shares his love of horseracing with his family.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30856
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 25, 2007
Pages
p. Sports 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 25, 2007
Pages
p. Sports 1
Subjects
Headley, Aase
Headley, Bruce - biography
Headley, Gus
Headley, Karen
Horses and horse racing
Horse trainers
Item ID
31044AN
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The race horse "Return of the King" with jockey Martin Pedroza, won a race at Santa Anita Park. The horse belonged to the Ortega family, some of whom were killed by Bruce Pardo in a Christmas Eve massacre in Covina.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 9, 2009
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 9, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Christmas Eve Massacre - December 24, 2008
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Horses and horse racing
Ortega, Charles
Ortega, James
Ortega, Joseph
Pardo, Bruce
Pedroza, Martin
Race horse owners
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Item ID
31550AN
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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
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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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Horse racing at Fairplex Park started its 64th season at the Los Angeles County Fair. Earlier this summer officials proposed moving the races to Santa Anita Park. The California horse Racing Board denied their request on June 26.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24458
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 14, 2002
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 14, 2002
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Santa Anita Park
Fairplex Park
Item ID
24649AN
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Helen Meredith is the founder of Pegasus Ranch in Tehachapi, CA, a place where 60 retired thoroughbreds live. She is struggling financially and estimates that the United Pegasus Foundation is $80,000 in debt. Some of the famous race horses there are Cardmania, winner of the 1993 Breeders' Cup Spring at Santa Anita Park, Music Merci (another Breeders' Cup veteran), Time to Pass, Sand Lizard, and Kingdom Found.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31777
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 4, 2009
Pages
p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 4, 2009
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Meredith, Helen
Race horses - retired
United Pegasus Foundation - Pegasus Ranch
Item ID
31974AN
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The 72nd $1 million Santa Anita Handicap is running today. Some of the top contenders are named Colonel John, Einstein, Cowboy Cal, Court Vision, and Matto Mondo. Helen Pitts is Einstein's trainer. Einstein is the son of horse Spend a Buck.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31406
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 7, 2009
Pages
p. C1, C6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 7, 2009
Pages
p. C1, C6
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Pitts, Helen
Santa Anita Handicap
Santa Anita Park 2001-2010
Item ID
31599AN
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Art Wilson writes that a horse named Zenyatta deserves the Eclipse Award as 2008 Horse of the Year. He gives a list of Zenyatta's impressive credits.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31278
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 31, 2008
Pages
p. C1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 31, 2008
Pages
p. C1
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Wilson, Art
Zenyatta (race horse)
Item ID
31473AN
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Featured articles on Seabiscuit include quotes from the book, readers remembering the horse, locals used as extras in the filming of the movie at Santa Anita Park, silver lined hooves on display at the California the Thoroughbred Association's library, information on Gary Stevens, and interviews with author Laura Hillenbrand.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25866
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 20, 2003
Pages
p. A12, A13, C1, U6. U10, U13
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 20, 2003
Pages
p. A12, A13, C1, U6. U10, U13
Subjects
Seabiscuit
Santa Anita Park 2001 - 2010
Filmmaking
Moving pictures
Item ID
26066AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council considers changing the street named El Monte Avenue to Seabiscuit Avenue in honor of the legendary thoroughbred horse.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28855
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 23, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 23, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Seabiscuit Avenue
Street Names
El Monte Avenue
Arcadia City Council
Item ID
29046AN
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Newspaper Index
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A farewell ceremony was held at Hollywood Park on Sunday, July 13, for Arcadia resident Laffit Pincay, Jr., horse racing's winningest jockey.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25858
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 14, 2003
Pages
p. B1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 14, 2003
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Pincay, Laffit (Jr.)
Horse racing
Item ID
26058AN
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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
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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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