@KevinModesti

Sports and politics writer and editor. Alum of UCLA Daily Bruin, L.A. Herald Examiner, and @LADailyNews and other @SoCalNewsGroup papers.

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Katie Davis rides 12-1 shot to stakes win in her Santa Anita debut dailynews.com/2026/10/25/kat…

Katie Davis rides 12-1 shot to stakes win in her Santa Anita debut

The New York-based jockey gets the first graded-stakes victory of her career with People Watching in the Autumn Miss.

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Emisael Jaramillo rides 2 Santa Anita stakes winners, ties for lead dailynews.com/2026/10/24/emi…

Emisael Jaramillo rides 2 Santa Anita stakes winners, ties for lead

He and Juan Hernandez top the jockey standings with four racing days left in the meet; upsets create $109,519 double carryover.

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Horse racing: Breeders’ Cup questions include California’s chances dailynews.com/2026/10/22/hor…

Horse racing: Breeders’ Cup questions include California’s chances

The state has produced fewer Cup race winners in recent years, but when horses from here do win, they often do so at attractive odds.

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Horse racing notebook: Santa Anita riding leaders battle in weekend stakes dailynews.com/2026/10/22/hor…

Horse racing notebook: Santa Anita riding leaders battle in weekend stakes

Two wins separate jockeys Juan Hernandez, Emisael Jaramillo, Joel Rosario and Kazushi Kimura with two weeks to go in the autumn meet in Arcadia.

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Horse racing: ‘World class’ Jamie Spencer riding at Santa Anita, Del Mar ocregister.com/2026/10/15/ho…

Horse racing: ‘World class’ Jamie Spencer riding at Santa Anita, Del Mar

A champion in Ireland and Britain, the 46-year-old recorded his first California stakes win by coolly rallying Tirupati to victory on Monday.

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L.A. Daily News@ladailynewsOct 15
Horse racing: ‘World class’ Jamie Spencer riding at Santa Anita, Del Mar dailynews.com/2026/10/15/hor…

Horse racing: ‘World class’ Jamie Spencer riding at Santa Anita, Del Mar

A champion in Ireland and Britain, the 46-year-old recorded his first California stakes win by coolly rallying Tirupati to victory on Monday.

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Boss Sully returns to win on Santa Anita turf dailynews.com/2026/10/10/bos…

Boss Sully returns to win on Santa Anita turf

Mike Smith pilots the California-bred gelding, who posts his latest victory after a layoff.

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Hall of Fame jockey Don Pierce dies at 89 dailynews.com/2026/10/08/hal…

Hall of Fame jockey Don Pierce dies at 89

The winner of four Santa Anita Handicap winners was one of the leading riders in Southern California in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Horse racing notebook: ‘Grand Slam’ can end slump at Santa Anita dailynews.com/2026/10/08/hor…

Horse racing notebook: ‘Grand Slam’ can end slump at Santa Anita

Cal-bred mare Grand Slam Smile is assigned 128 pounds for Sunday’s California Distaff Handicap after having excuses for her first two off-the-board finishes.

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Just got an email from Ross Porter confirming what he shared on Facebook: former Dodgers GM Fred Claire (@Fred_Claire) died on Monday, his 91st birthday.
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Umberto Rispoli adds Santa Anita stakes wins with Repo Man, Vanta dailynews.com/2026/10/04/umb…

Umberto Rispoli adds Santa Anita stakes wins with Repo Man, Vanta

The jockey ends up with four wins in the Arcadia track’s two weekends of races for horses aiming for the Breeders’ Cup later this month.

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Santa Anita romp sends Bob Baffert’s Hughes to Breeders’ Cup Juvenile dailynews.com/2026/10/03/san…

Santa Anita romp sends Bob Baffert’s Hughes to Breeders’ Cup Juvenile

The fillies Domain Expansion and Thought Process also earn Breeders’ Cup berths with victories Saturday in Arcadia.

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Horse racing: Santa Anita stakes to test Breeders’ Cup hopefuls’ stamina ocregister.com/2026/10/01/ho…

Horse racing: Santa Anita stakes to test Breeders’ Cup hopefuls’ stamina

The American Pharoah and other races for 2-year-olds are featured on the Arcadia track’s second weekend packed with graded stakes.

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Horse racing: Santa Anita stakes to test Breeders’ Cup hopefuls’ stamina dailynews.com/2026/10/01/hor…

Horse racing: Santa Anita stakes to test Breeders’ Cup hopefuls’ stamina

The American Pharoah and other races for 2-year-olds are featured on the Arcadia track’s second weekend packed with graded stakes.

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Listenupshance, Super Corredora score Santa Anita wins dailynews.com/2026/09/27/lis…

Listenupshance, Super Corredora score Santa Anita wins

‘Shance’ continues his rags-to-riches story by taking the Santa Anita Sprint Championship, one of two Breeders’ Cup qualifiers Sunday.

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Santa Anita-loving Forged Steel wins Goodwood Stakes at 12-1 ocregister.com/2026/09/26/sa…

Santa Anita-loving Forged Steel wins Goodwood Stakes at 12-1

Again doing his best work in Arcadia, the colt leads a 1-2 finish for eastern trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. and earns a spot in next month’s Breeders’ Cup Classic.

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Santa Anita-loving Forged Steel wins Goodwood Stakes at 12-1 dailynews.com/2026/09/26/san…

Santa Anita-loving Forged Steel wins Goodwood Stakes at 12-1

Again doing his best work in Arcadia, the colt leads a 1-2 finish for eastern trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. and earns a spot in next month’s Breeders’ Cup Classic.

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Horse racing: Santa Anita fall season will be fast out of the gate ocregister.com/2026/09/24/ho…

Horse racing: Santa Anita fall season will be fast out of the gate

The meet opens Friday; here are horses to watch on the first of two weekends full of graded stakes, some with Breeders’ Cup implications for October at Keeneland.

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At Santa Anita, trainer Aggie Ordonez seeks ‘new heights’ ocregister.com/2026/09/25/at…

At Santa Anita, trainer Aggie Ordonez seeks ‘new heights’

A win on this stakes-packed weekend by Om N Joy or Vodka Vodka could send Ordonez to the Breeders’ Cup, to be held Oct. 30-31 at Keeneland, for the first time.

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Horse racing notes: Santa Anita puts wagering-menu changes in place ocregister.com/2026/09/24/ho…

Horse racing notes: Santa Anita puts wagering-menu changes in place

At the fall meet opening on Friday, the “place pick-8” will have a 15% takeout rate, less onerous than many bets (at racetracks, anyway). It challenges players to pick first- or second-place finish...

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