Horse racing: 3 trainers ‘honored’ to carry on John Shirreffs’ work

ARCADIA — For a week, people at Santa Anita have been honoring John Shirreffs in every way they can: in the track’s moment of silence between races last Friday, in flowers and cards left at the Zenyatta statue, in sad conversations everywhere you turn. Now, Peter Eurton, Bob Hess Jr. and Leonard Powell will pay homage to Shirreffs the best way they know: by trying to keep his horses in the winner’s circle. Shirreffs was a youthful 80 when the trainer of Racing Hall of Fame mare Zenyatta and 2005 Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo died unexpectedly at his and his wife Dottie Ingordo-Shirreffs’ home in Arcadia on Feb. 12, having become ill on a trip to Ocala, Fla., to look over 2-year-olds. Dottie...