Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Los Angeles Times

    Santa Anita might abolish the use of whips by jockeys

    by John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times Mar 28, 2019 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - It was four years ago that American Pharoah made horse racing the biggest story in sports, if only for one weekend, when he became the first horse to win the Triple Crown in nearly four decades.

    It was an accomplishment that never would have been realized had he not won the first of those races, the Kentucky Derby. And that victory may have never happened had jockey Victor Espinoza not used his riding crop - the more genteel name for a whip - at least 30 times on the horse down

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Los Angeles Times

    Los Angeles Times3 min readCrime & Violence
    Editorial: The Supreme Court Cannot Allow Homelessness To Be A Crime
    If you are homeless and have nowhere to go — neither a temporary shelter bed nor a permanent home — can you be fined or, worse, jailed for sleeping on a sidewalk? Or is that cruel and unusual punishment? That’s the question that the Supreme Court wre
    Los Angeles Times5 min read
    Gaza Protests Roil Universities From California To New York; Tensions Grow At Humboldt, Berkeley
    LOS ANGELES — Officials shut down the campus of Cal Poly Humboldt on Monday night after masked pro-Palestinian protesters occupied an administrative building and barricaded the entrance as Gaza-related demonstrations roiled campuses across the nation
    Los Angeles Times8 min read
    Bit By A Billionaire's Dog? Or A Case Of Extortion? A Legal Saga From An LA Dog Park
    LOS ANGELES -- A dog-bites-woman story usually isn't much of a story at all. But an incident in one of L.A.'s wealthiest enclaves has become something else entirely. What began in a Brentwood park on a summer day in 2022, when a dog owned by billiona

    Related Books & Audiobooks