Donald Pierce

Jerry Lambert, one of California’s leading jockeys through the 1960s and ‘70s was found dead Monday morning at his place of employment, Magali Farms i...

Highly respected longtime Southern California trainer Leonard Dorfman passed away peacefully early Sunday evening at his daughter’s home in Round Rock...

Retired Hall of Fame jockey Don Pierce, who won four Santa Anita Handicaps and is regarded as one of the best big-money riders of his era, has fond re...

Had Bill Shoemaker still been alive, he would have been in the front row cheering, or even better on the stage handing out the bijou, when Don Pierce ...

A standing-room only crowd at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Friday at the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion in Saratoga Springs reserved its longes...

Don Pierce started riding horses at bush tracks, crudely constructed ovals where guys bet on horses with no names ridden by fearless teenagers with no...

Trainer Michael "Buster" Millerick, jockey Don Pierce, and Harry Bassett, a horse who was a champion in 1870 and 1871, have been elected to the Nation...

The day after Zenyatta won for the 15th straight time, Santa Anita still couldn't get enough of her. Ron Charles, who runs the joint when Frank Strona...

May 28, 1979 After waltzing off with the Preakness in near-record time, Spectacular Bid should have a real ball at Belmont, where a victory in that st...

Spectacular Bid and his 19-year-old jockey, Ronnie Franklin, confounded the critics with a come-from-behind win in the Kentucky Derby