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Chuck Winner, an internationally recognized expert in public affairs, crisis communications, and campaign management, who served on the California Horse Racing Board from 2012 to 2019, five of those years as chairman, passed away Thursday morning, March 24, from natural causes at the age of 81.

Chuck Winner, the former California Horse Racing Board chairman who oversaw reforms in the sport after dozens of racing deaths at Santa Anita, dies at 81.

Chuck Winner, who served on the California Horse Racing Board from 2012 to 2019, five of those years as chairman, passed away Thursday

Copy shortlink: The 2021 Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit, failed a drug test after the race, putting a new stain on a sport troubled by doping problems and placing thoroughbred horse racings most recognizable personality, the Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, under uncomfortable scrutiny. If he is disqualified, Medina Spirit will be stripped of the Derby title and its winning purse, and become only the third horse in the 147-year history of the race to receive such ...

For the sixth time in the first seven days of the Los Angeles County Fair Winter Thoroughbred meet at Los Alamitos, there will be a Pick Six carryover when racing resumes Thursday. The carryover will be a hefty $145,797 as no tickets were able to isolate six winners for the fourth consecutive racing day. Three upsets in a row by Next Flight ($26.80) in the sixth, Synthesis ($24.40) and Loud Loud Music ($19.80) in the eighth triggered another carryover. The Pick Six will begin in Thursday’s fo...