Word: aqueduct
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...France and traded horse chat with the Queen of England. Though he goes through the motions genially, the promo marathon for his new film Funny Lady is not Caan's idea of athletics. He was therefore relieved to get away for a day at New York's Aqueduct race track to check up with the trainer of his five horses there and get his colors registered. Jimmy, a veteran rodeo rider, has decided that his brand, a rocking JC, will be stamped on silks of emerald and white - a Jewish cowboy, Jimmy loves the Irish. Even...
Pain is also having a thumb almost wrenched out in rodeo competition. His bandaged fist parries the air, occasionally landing a light jab on the nearest arm or ribs. At Aqueduct, guys who know him from somewhere keep coming up for bouts of camaraderie. Jimmy loves it. Unlike Lauren Bacall, he will never be stumped to think of a friend who is not famous. "I have friends from 15 years - guys I played ball with...
...handicap a horse race simply by picking a jockey, regardless of his mount, the trainer or the opposition, is usually considered a form of gambling insanity. Not so last week at New York's Aqueduct race track. There, a $2 win bet on the same jockey in each of eight races on the same afternoon would have paid off $56. The jockey was Angel Cordero Jr., who has been almost unbeatable since the opening of Aqueduct's spring meeting last month. In 15 days of racing at the "Big A," Cordero has ridden 48 winners and finished...
Shoo-In. Cordero, of course, employs more than a model technique. Says Aqueduct Steward Warren Mehrtens, a former jockey who rode Assault to the Triple Crown in 1946, "Angel knows the characteristics of his horse as well as the others in the race. If he's behind a horse that he knows tends to drift outside down the stretch, he knows the inside is open to him." Cordero also possesses a fine sense of timing. Steward Nathaniel Hyland admires the way Cordero "paces horses to save their speed for the end." After riding one long shot to victory from...
...communes, including a couple of days at Tachai, the model commune. It's not the model commune because it's richest but because its people built dams and tunnels to hold off floods and filled in ravines pretty much without benefit of machinery--they're finishing up a new aqueduct at the moment. Then when most of their work was washed away in a flood they refused to accept state aid in rebuilding it, so Chairman Mao said, "In agriculture we learn from Tachai," and it became the model commune. Its weatherbeaten vice president said it gets 2000 visitors...