Subsanador, Mike Smith win California Crown thriller

ARCADIA – They came for the music and food and drink. If they’re lucky, first-time visitors to Santa Anita stayed for the finish of the big horse race.

At the first-ever California Crown event Saturday afternoon, mixing chart-topper Shaboozey and other live music acts with a program of rich thoroughbred races, the 5-year-old horse Subsanador and 59-year-old jockey Mike Smith stole the show.

The Richard Mandella-trained Subsanador prevailed in a three-way stretch battle to win a three-way...