Melvin F. Stute

David Flores, a popular and successful fixture in Southern California for decades before moving his tack eastward several years ago, will return to Sa...

In the winner’s circle after Free Rose’s victory in the Grade II $250,000 Del Mar Derby on Sunday, trainer Richard Baltas looked at the replay on...

In retrospect the results weren’t that surprising. But the stages on which trainer John Sadler pulled off upsets to record two of his three stakes vic...

Boozer, a versatile son of Unusual Heat who has won six of seven career starts on turf, returns to the main track next Saturday in the $150,000 Tiznow...

Unlike many of the superstar thoroughbreds I will discuss in this series, this grey colored son of Silver Buck took awhile to grow on me as a young r...

At the grand old age of 86, Mel Stute still has a goodly number of lucid brain cells, especially when it comes to his favorite subject, 1986 Eclipse A...

California slept easy last night.Slept easy with the peace of mind that all was right in the world of racing. California Chrome won the Kentucky Derby...

Snow Chief, the great Cal-bred who won the Santa Anita Derby in 1986 by six lengths and was favored to win the Kentucky Derby but didn’t, went on to e...

Good things come in twos for Gary Stute. The son of retired trainer Mel Stute won two races back to back at Santa Anita yesterday, Tiz Dynamic ($16.40...

Two of Southern California’s most popular horsemen are scheduled to come of the injured reserve list today at Santa Anita. Humberto Ascanio, Bobby Fra...