Rafael Bejarano

Victory No. 3,000 for jockey Rafael Bejarano

2013-05-11 15:00:00

California's leading jockey, Rafael Bejarano, achieved a milestone Saturday at Betfair Hollywood Park, riding to his 3,000th career victory in the first race aboard Ondine, a 3-year-old filly trained by Bob Baffert. Bejarano, 30, a native of Peru, has...

Matt Kenseth wins Southern 500

2013-05-11 21:02:00

Matt Kenseth passed his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch with 13 laps to go to win his first Southern 500 on Saturday night at Darlington, S.C. Busch had the strongest car for much of the race and led for 265 of the 367 laps at Darlington Raceway....

Jockey Rafael Bejarano cleans up at Hollywood Park

2013-04-28 00:00:00

The jockey colony at Hollywood Park might want to break out a bottle of champagne to celebrate the absence of Rafael Bejarano next week when he leaves town to ride Midnight Lucky in the Kentucky Oaks and Overanalyze in the Kentucky Derby. That means...

Interaction wins San Juan Capistrano Handicap by a nose

2013-04-22 00:00:00

On the final day of the 71-day Santa Anita meeting Sunday, the marathon 13/4-mile San Juan Capistrano Handicap produced a thrilling finish. When the photo showed that Interaction had beaten All Squared Away by a nose, 80-year-old Hall of Fame trainer...

Overanalyze rallies to win Arkansas Derby

2013-04-13 21:30:00

Overanalyze stormed down the home stretch to pull away and win the $1-million Arkansas Derby on Saturday at Hot Springs, Ark. The colt, trained by Todd Pletcher, trailed with a second group for much of the race before charging ahead after the final turn...

Trainer John Shirreffs is leaving Southern California

2013-03-30 16:45:00

In a sign of potential trouble for California horse racing, trainer John Shirreffs, who guided Zenyatta to prominence, has decided to move to Belmont Park in New York with a stable of horses at the end of April. "Belmont Park has been wonderful to me,"...

Teddy's Promise wins Santa Monica Stakes at Santa Anita

2013-01-26 19:44:00

Teddy's Promise won the $250,000 Santa Monica Stakes by three lengths at Santa Anita on Saturday, a year after finishing fifth in the Grade II race. Ridden by Victor Espinoza, Teddy's Promise ran seven furlongs in 1 minute 22.64 seconds on a dirt surface...

King Glorious Stakes at Hollywood Park is won by 60-1 shot Weewinnin

2012-12-16 18:42:00

The final day of the 24-day Betfair Hollywood Park autumn meeting Sunday produced a 60-1 shocker in the $200,000 King Glorious Stakes. Weewinnin, under jockey Jose Valdivia Jr., pulled off the upset in the seven-furlong race for Cal-bred 2-year-olds....

Fort Larned withstands a siege in Breeders' Cup Classic

2012-11-03 23:07:00

Game On Dude didn't quite have enough game. Mucho Macho Man had insufficient macho. And so Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic, a Hollywood show taking place before 55,123 well-dressed and well-entertained people at a horse track long established in star-...

In Cal Cup Classic, Baze earns biggest win in his racing comeback

2012-10-14 00:00:00

On Cal Cup Day at Santa Anita, jockey Tyler Baze earned his biggest win yet in his racing comeback, guiding Lucky Primo to a half-length victory over Got Even in the $175,000 Cal Cup Classic at 1 1/16 miles. Baze, 29, hadn't ridden since August of 2011...

Bob Baffert has awesome day again

2012-09-29 20:46:00

Saturday at Santa Anita was a great day for Bob Baffert, for Baffert fans, and for fans of soap opera drama. Baffert, a long-proven masterful trainer of thoroughbreds, won three of the five Grade I races, each worth $250,000, that qualified the winner...

Trainer Bob Baffert: The silver-haired dude with a golden touch

2012-07-07 21:30:00

The oft-troubled sport of thoroughbred horse racing may have a solution for its well-documented woes right in its midst. All it needs to do is clone Bob Baffert. Baffert, the white-haired trainer with the fast one-liners and faster horses, ruled the...

Donald R. Dizney's Surfcup and jockey Rafael Bejarano, left, hold off Fighting Hussar with jockey Victor Espinoza, right, to win the $300,000 Snow Chief Stakes horse race at Betfair Hollywood Park on Saturday.

2013-04-27 00:00:00