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Thirty years ago, in his heyday as exercise rider for the stars of the Ron McAnally stable, Lewis Cenicola could be heard singing, “You are the sunshine of my life . . .” as he made his way to the track, in a voice that tiptoed a dangerous line between ...

Quick, hide the women and children. Warn the easily startled and keep the impressionable at bay. There has been loosed into the racing world a true force with which to be reckoned.

Welcome to the 12th annual ROI Awards. ROI stands for return on investment, and for our purposes it refers to the average payoff you would have received if you had wagered $2 to win on each of a horse’s races this past year. While we in Vegas applaud ...

Ho, ho, and ho. Look what the California Horse Racing Board pulled out of its big bag of goodies at last week’s meeting, held at jolly Hollywood Park.

The balloting for racing’s divisional champions of 2011 does not close until 3 p.m. on Jan. 3, but it looks from here as if the engravers can safely start inscribing seven of the 10 trophies that will be handed out in Beverly Hills on Jan. 16. ...

What NFL team is overachieving the most this season? Well, most people would answer the San Francisco 49ers as they have pretty much come from nowhere to win 10 games and have already clinched the NFC West under first-year head coach Jim Harbaugh.

There was nothing about horse racing that did not intrigue Joe Palmer. Indeed, were he around today he would be endlessly entertained.

It’s a game most trainers only get to play in their fantasies, looking at the national schedule of lucrative races and imagining where the horse of their dreams might fit. Only now Peter Eurton gets to play it for real.

Where have those 120 Beyer horses gone? I miss them. You should, too.

The action of Congress to lift the ban on the federal inspection of horse meat operations has renewed the threat of horse slaughter.

The 11-0 Green Bay Packers haven't been the best bet this season. That distinction goes to the 49ers, woh are 9-1-1 against the spread this season.

Dead horses make it into the mainstream news flow sometimes, though usually only if they come in clusters, or in races of significance, or on very, very slow news days. Let’s face it, the death on Saturday of the $25,000 claimer Waltzing With ...

The stakes schedule and track information for the 2012 Turfway Park holiday and 2012-13 winter-spring meets.