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Kevin Modesti

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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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Personal news: I’m back, as a part-time freelancer, to write on horse racing for @LADailyNews @OCRegister @SGVTribune & @SoCalNewsGroup. Honored to be asked to carry on Art Wilson’s & the papers’ devotion to racing coverage. I welcome comments & questions. dailynews.com/2024/02/22/mod…
Modesti: National Treasure leads California hopes in Saudi Cup horse race

Modesti: National Treasure leads California hopes in Saudi Cup horse race

Flavien Prat will ride the Bob Baffert-trained horse in Saturday’s $20 million race at King Abdulaziz Racecourse in Riyadh, the richest in the world.

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Sovereignty wins Breeders’ Cup Classic, shows the “doubters.” dailynews.com/2026/10/31/sov…
Sovereignty wins Breeders’ Cup Classic, shows the ‘doubters’

Sovereignty wins Breeders’ Cup Classic, shows the ‘doubters’

The colt missed the 2025 Classic at Del Mar and had a troubled 2026 season before beating a deep field Saturday at Keeneland.

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Sovereignty wins Breeders’ Cup Classic, shows the ‘doubters’ dailynews.com/2026/10/31/sov…
Sovereignty wins Breeders’ Cup Classic, shows the ‘doubters’

Sovereignty wins Breeders’ Cup Classic, shows the ‘doubters’

The colt missed the 2025 Classic at Del Mar and had a troubled 2026 season before beating a deep field Saturday at Keeneland.

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Forever Young takes new path to Breeders’ Cup repeat try ocregister.com/2026/10/30/fo…
Forever Young takes new path to Breeders’ Cup repeat try

Forever Young takes new path to Breeders’ Cup repeat try

The Classic favorite prepped in New York this time after training in Japan before his 2025 win at Del Mar, and faces difference challenges Saturday in Kentucky.

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Bob Baffert gets 7th Breeders’ Cup Juvenile win with Hughes ocregister.com/2026/10/30/bo…
Bob Baffert gets 7th Breeders’ Cup Juvenile win with Hughes

Bob Baffert gets 7th Breeders’ Cup Juvenile win with Hughes

In the marquee race on the first day of the Cup, the California-based 2-year-old and jockey Flavien Prat take charge late in a tight contest.

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Bob Baffert gets 7th Breeders’ Cup Juvenile win with Hughes

Bob Baffert gets 7th Breeders’ Cup Juvenile win with Hughes

In the marquee race on the first day of the Cup, the California-based 2-year-old and jockey Flavien Prat take charge late in a tight contest.

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Forever Young takes new path to Breeders’ Cup repeat try

Forever Young takes new path to Breeders’ Cup repeat try

The Classic favorite prepped in New York this time after training in Japan before his 2025 win at Del Mar, and faces difference challenges Saturday in Kentucky.

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Horse racing: As Breeders’ Cup starts Friday, which stars will shine? ocregister.com/2026/10/29/ho…
Horse racing: As Breeders’ Cup starts Friday, which stars will shine?

Horse racing: As Breeders’ Cup starts Friday, which stars will shine?

Two-year-old Hughes’s California dominance to be tested in the Juvenile and Forever Young faces a deep field in a bid to repeat in the Classic at Keeneland.

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Horse racing notebook: Proletariat eyes 3rd stakes win in Santa Anita finale ocregister.com/2026/10/29/ho…
Horse racing notebook: Proletariat eyes 3rd stakes win in Santa Anita finale

Horse racing notebook: Proletariat eyes 3rd stakes win in Santa Anita finale

The 3-year-old star of the Del Mar summer season heads the Twilight Derby on Sunday; Juan Hernandez and Doug O’Neill close in on autumn meet titles.

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Horse racing: As Breeders’ Cup starts Friday, which stars will shine? ocregister.com/2026/10/29/ho…
Horse racing: As Breeders’ Cup starts Friday, which stars will shine?

Horse racing: As Breeders’ Cup starts Friday, which stars will shine?

Two-year-old Hughes’s California dominance to be tested in the Juvenile and Forever Young faces a deep field in a bid to repeat in the Classic at Keeneland.

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Horse racing notebook: Proletariat eyes 3rd stakes win in Santa Anita finale ocregister.com/2026/10/29/ho…
Horse racing notebook: Proletariat eyes 3rd stakes win in Santa Anita finale

Horse racing notebook: Proletariat eyes 3rd stakes win in Santa Anita finale

The 3-year-old star of the Del Mar summer season heads the Twilight Derby on Sunday; Juan Hernandez and Doug O’Neill close in on autumn meet titles.

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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

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

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

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

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

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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Santa Anita has a 2-day carryover of $99,295 in the pick 6 on races 5-10. After light rain overnight, races won’t be moved off turf and the grass will be rated “good.” But the 9th, the California Distaff Handicap, moves from the hillside course to the turf oval at 6-1/2 furlongs.
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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

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

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

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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