Services planned for Santa Anita's Lou Villasenor

DEL MAR, Calif. – A rosary and funeral service will be held next week for Lou Villasenor, the popular member of Santa Anita’s television department who died last week.

Both the rosary and funeral will be held at the Church of Nativity, 3743 Tyler Ave. in El Monte. There is a viewing at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, with the rosary at 6:30 that night, followed by eulogies. The Catholic funeral mass will be Wednesday at 9 a.m., with burial immediately following at Resurrection Cemetery, 966 Potrero Grande Dr., in nearby Rosemead.

Santa Anita will host a celebration of life for Villasenor in the track’s FrontRunner restaurant beginning at approximately noon on Wednesday.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Villasenor’s memory can be made to the Edwin Gregson Foundation, P.O. Box 660039, Arcadia, CA, 91006-0039, or online at gregsonfoundation.com.

• The unbeaten 2-year-old Improbable, prepping for the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Futurity on Dec. 8, worked six furlongs on Wednesday morning at Santa Anita in 1:12.20. He won the Street Sense at Churchill Downs earlier this month for his second win in as many starts.

• Chasing Yesterday, a half-sister to American Pharoah who won the Desi Arnaz Stakes at Del Mar on Nov. 12, worked a half-mile in 48.20 seconds on Wednesday at Santa Anita as she readies for the Grade 1 Starlet at Los Alamitos on Dec. 8.

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