Little Big Man

The father of the little girl who might have been trampled by a horse at Santa Anita was in the hospital room of the little man who had saved her from serious injury or worse.

"How old is your little girl, about nine?" said John Shear, the little man. Shear still has the trim physique of the jockey he once was. He's 5-foot-2 and 110 pounds, but just big enough to deflect a strapping thoroughbred, running amok in the paddock minutes before a race...