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Part of Willie Shoemaker's secret of success is keeping busy (a phenomenal 1,364 mounts so far this year). At 22, he has been riding for only 4½ years, and such veterans as Eddie Arcaro and Ted Atkinson are more in demand for the big stakes. But no ordinary jockey could keep as winningly busy as Willie does, and his merits are fully appreciated by his peers. Arcaro says flatly that Willie already ranks with "the greatest in the country." Sharp-eyed old Earl Sande also ranks Willie with the best, and adds that if Arcaro himself...
...jockey when today's veteran best-Eddie Arcaro and Ted Atkinson-were wearing diapers. He raced to victory on horses with such names as Man o' War, Zev, Flying Ebony, Gallant Fox. and he won the Kentucky Derby three times, the Belmont Stakes five times. In a time of purses far smaller than today's, he brought home more than $3,000,000 worth. In the age of sport known as golden, Jockey Earl Sande was the best in his business...
...horse that helped him prove it was a stubborn bay colt named Jamie K., the same Jamie K. that had come within a neck of beating him in the Preakness, and with the same Eddie Arcaro up. In the Belmont last week, after a moderately paced (1:39⅓) mile, Jamie K. and the Dancer left the others behind and made it a two-horse race. Jamie K. had the lead with three-eighths of a mile to go. Could the Dancer catch...
...Dancer's 13 starts. Lost in the field at this stage, some 14 lengths behind, was a 17-1 shot named Jamie K., owned by the International Boxing Club's President Jim Norris. Jamie K. rated much of what backing he had simply because Jockey Eddie Arcaro was in the saddle...
...field swept into the first turn with Dark Star in the lead. Eddie Arcaro kept Correspondent second, close to the pace, well ahead of possible traffic jams on the turn...