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    Trainer John Shirreffs seeks first Santa Anita Handicap win; Baffert suspension upheld

    by John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times Mar 04, 2022 4 minutes
    In this file photo, Bob Baffert is interviewed at Keeneland Race Course on October 29, 2015, in Lexington, Kentucky.

    LOS ANGELES — Trainer John Shirreffs has accomplished a lot in more than four decades in the business. He won the Kentucky Derby in 2005 with 50-1 long shot Giacomo. He won the Breeders' Cup Classic with perhaps the greatest female horse of all time when Zenyatta beat the boys in 2009. He's taken the Santa Anita Derby three times.

    But, there is one thing the 76-year-old Vietnam veteran has never won — the Santa Anita Handicap. He hopes to change that Saturday when he takes the 8-5 favorite Express Train to post in the Grade 1 $650,000 race.

    The Santa Anita Handicap, better know by its

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