Bill Shoemaker

Marje Everett dies at 90; legendary figure in horse racing

2012-03-24 00:00:00

Marje Everett, a legendary and controversial figure in the sport of horse racing for more than four decades and the chief executive of the Hollywood Park racetrack for six years, has died. She was 90. Everett's longtime associate, Dorothy Carter, said...

Hot tips on California's premier racetracks

2011-10-16 00:00:00

California is home to more racetracks than any other state, with four dominant tracks and a dozen lesser venues, such as state fairs, where thoroughbreds line up shoulder to shoulder. The majors tend to be tributes to Old California. Each of the Big...

PASSINGS: Bill Harmatz

2011-01-29 22:40:00

Bill Harmatz, 79, a thoroughbred jockey who rode Royal Orbit to victory in the 1959 Preakness Stakes, died Thursday at his home in the San Diego County city of Vista, his daughter Sue Harmatz said. He had cancer. Harmatz began racing professionally at...

Jim Murray, May 22, 1961

2011-05-22 16:33:28

Mary Elizabeth Florsheim Bradley dies at 90; prominent figure in Southland racing

2010-02-16 20:11:00

Mary Elizabeth Florsheim Bradley, a prominent figure in Thoroughbred racing in Southern California and the daughter of a well-known Chicago shoe businessman, died Feb. 5 of natural causes at her home in Rancho Santa Fe, her family said. She was 90....

Featured players

2006-03-30 00:00:00

IN the big inning, there was Koufax. Baseball cradled in his left hand, his flinty eyes staring down another strikeout victim, he was the quintessential Los Angeles sports superstar of the mid-20th century, a larger-than-life mythic figure to a city...

It was always a good day at the races

2006-03-30 00:00:00

IN 1982, there was a wonderful documentary film about the Weavers, the blacklisted folk singers, subtitled, "Wasn't That a Time!" Wistful California racetrack operators could use the same words to describe the so-called golden age of horse racing, which...

L.A.'s high-style high-rise

2005-12-22 00:00:00

For a select group of Angelenos, the route to grandma's didn't go over the river and through the woods, but along Sunset to a 32-story Modernist block of stucco and glass built in 1964, a singular apartment house set back from and above the storied...

Jockey is perfect fit for I'll Have Another

2012-06-07 17:32:00

– Now, he's the burgeoning star with a sly smile on his face and steady answer to every question, even as the weight of racing history should be pressing upon him. But when Glen Todd first met Mario Gutierrez six years ago, the owner and jockey...

Despite push for change, horse racing conditions may be getting worse

2012-03-27 07:00:00

It takes a few seconds to realize what you are looking at. The Sunday cover of The New York Times always features one of the very best photographs taken in the world that week, and those shots are very often quite jarring. In some faraway land, you often...

Shore boutiques offer laid-back looks for home

2011-06-23 21:41:00

It's beach season! Time for a week, if you are lucky, on the coast to enjoy all that the Maryland and Delaware shores have to offer — including some really great shopping. With a built-in captive audience of second-home owners, the Mid-Atlantic...

Third title in works

2010-10-07 23:21:00

SEAL BEACH — Every day around lunchtime, Kristen Case sends her Newport Harbor High girls' tennis team some food for thought. Case texts her players an inspirational saying. "Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete,"...

The first jockey to win 500 races in a year, Hawley did it while riding in Maryland.

2012-03-15 00:00:00

Kent Desormeaux rides Big Brown during the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby. The Derby victory was Desormeaux's third, putting him in company with Isaac Murphy, Earl Sande, Angel Cordero Jr. and Gary Stevens.

2008-05-03 00:00:00

Among Bill Shoemaker's many accomplishments was becoming the oldest jockey to win the Kentucky Derby. He did that, at age 54, atop Ferdinand, above, in 1986.

2006-03-29 01:54:34