Horse racing column: Michael McCarthy has trained for Derby success

ARCADIA — There aren’t too many races in which Michael McCarthy is the young, up-and-coming trainer, the least accomplished of all the people saddling horses.
But that’s the contest McCarthy will find himself in Saturday when he saddles morning-line favorite Journalism to face Bob Baffert-trained Citizen Bull and Barnes and John Shirreffs-trained Baeza and Westwood in the Santa Anita Derby, the $500,000, Grade I race that identifies California’s contenders for the Kentuck