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Monte Hellman He also helmed 'The Shooting' and 'Ride in the Whirlwind,' two sparse Westerns starring a young Jack Nicholson. Monte Hellman, the maverick director and protege of Roger Corman who helmed the existential cult classics The Shooting and Two-Lane Blacktop, died Tuesday. He was 91. Hellman died at Eisenhower Health hospital in Palm Desert a week after he had fallen in his home, his daughter, Melissa Hellman, a producer, told The Hollywood Reporter. "He was my best friend," she said. Cahiers du Cinema, the influential French magazine, once called Hellman the most gifted American f...

Grade 1 Winner Fighting Mad Retired, To Be Bred To Curlin In 2021 Sponsored by: Fighting Mad went to the front at the start and was never headed in the Clement L. Hirsch Stakes Fighting Mad, a California-based Grade 1 winner, has been retired from racing and will be bred to Hall of Famer Curlin during the 2021 breeding season, Daily Racing Form and BloodHorse report. The 6-year-old daughter of New Year's Day won five of 10 starts during her on-track career, earning $472,008 as a homebred for Gary and Mary West and trained by Bob Baffert. Her biggest win came last year when she led ...

Chilean-Bred Sanenus Makes Early Move A Winning One In La Canada Sponsored by: Sanenus, a Chilean-bred by Scat Daddy, wins the La Canada by six lengths under Umberto Rispoli Ridden for the first time by Umberto Rispoli, Chilean-bred Sanenus made what appeared to be a premature move, but instead, the race was over early, as she took command around the far turn en route to an impressive six-length win in Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. Trained by Michael McCarthy for owner/breeder Matriarca, Sanenus got 1 1/16 miles on a fast track in 1:...

Training Horses Is Still A Work Of Art For Sherman Sponsored by: Trainer Art Sherman The New Year is here and one of racing's undisputed good guys, Art Sherman, welcomed it in fine fettle as he prepares to turn 84 on Feb. 17. In 2016, Sherman was named winner of the Big Sport of Turfdom Award, awarded annually by the Turf Publicists of America honoring a “person or group of people who enhance coverage of Thoroughbred racing through cooperation with media and racing publicists.” Sherman, who gained fame and fortune most trainers can only dream about when California Chrome burst o...

Equibase Analysis: Never Be Enough Poised To Upset La Canada Sponsored by: Never Be Enough © Benoit Photo Saturday's running of the Grade 3, $100,000 La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita Park features a field of seven mares, most of which have made their mark in similar stakes recently. Leading the field in terms of career earnings is Hard Not to Love, who won the one-turn Grade 2 Santa Monica Stakes 11 months ago and who has three runner-up finishes in graded stakes since, most recently in the G2 Zenyatta Stakes last fall. Fighting Mad is a two-time G1 winner, having captured the Santa...