Aerial view of Rancho Santa Anita taken above Dairy, looking north, with 5,000,000 gallon reservoir in lower left, and Baldwin's one mile training track built in 1876 with stud barn buildings on south end of track. Eaton's Santa Anita at Colorado Boulevard and Michillinda Avenue just visible at top of photo.
Aerial view showing Eaton's Santa Anita in foreground, looking south from Colorado Boulevard and Michillinda Avenue. Lucky Baldwin's one mile training track built in 1876 is visible with stud barn buildings on south end of track.
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.
Black horsehandler standing in white shirt and dark pants holding harness of race horse with jockey mounted. Young man in suit and hat (possibly the trainer) standing to the right of these. None are identified.
E.J."Lucky" Baldwin thoroughbred horse, LOS ANGELES is shown being held by a black trainer while a man in top hat watches. There is another horse seen at left. Caption underneath reads: Los Angeles, with additional info on Santa Anita Handicap.
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.)
Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin in carriage on his original track which was adjacent to Michillinda and near Colorado Blvd. With him is W. McClelland, Baldwin's horse trainer at this time. There are 16 other people in photo; some are mounted on horses, some standing. Etched on the photo is "On the track - Lucky Baldwins Place. S.G.V.R.R."
Four horses, three with riders, are seen being readied for morning workout. Each horse has a groom attending it. There is one man in business suit and hat standing in center of track. Stables are seen on right. Caption reads:Ready for the early morning gallop.
Horse, held by hand of groom who is off picture to the left, standing by horse stables on E.J. "Lucky" Baldwin's Ranch. About 5 men can be seen down the corridor in front of stalls. White rail fencing is seen on extreme right with eucalyptus trees shading area. Picture is on Queen of Diamonds and is labeled Lady Diamond. This photo belongs to the Huntington Library. It is shown here for research only.
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.
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.
Page from Los Angeles Times of March 21, 1909 telling of the coming end of racing at Santa Anita Park when State of California will close it with the ban on horse racing, April 20, 1909. See legible copy in VF Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and Horse Racing.
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.