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...Count, Eddie Arcaro up, the $118,500 Belmont Stakes; in New York. Rated well by heady Eddie, longshot (13-1) One Count upset favored (1-2) Blue Man by 2½ lengths in 2:30.2, two full seconds off the stake record first set by One Count's sire, Count Fleet...
There are no little men at a racetrack. You pays your money and you takes your choice and Eddie Arcaro and Hill Gail are working for you. It's a challenge to the sporting enthusiast, the mathematician, the donester...
...mile Derby Trial, barrel-chested Hill Gail and banana-nosed Eddie Arcaro romped to a six-length victory in track-record time (1:35.4). The 78th running of the mile-and-a-quarter Derby was almost as easy for them. Breaking from the No. 1 position, they let the fast-stepping Hannibal (7O-to-1) set the pace for the first three-quarters of a mile. Then Hill Gail took off, quickly opened a six-length lead. After that, it was just a matter of hanging on, and the bay did-with only two whacks of Arcaro...
Hill Gail's time: 2:01.6, one-fifth of a second off the track record held by Whirlaway, the Calumet-Jones-Arcaro winner of the 1941 Derby. Was Hill Gail extended? Said Arcaro: "You don't finish a Derby with anything left...
Calumet Farm and Trainer Ben Jones are hard to beat any time; when Jockey Eddie Arcaro teams up with them, the combination is usually unbeatable. At Churchill Downs last week, they warmed up for the Kentucky Derby by taking the Derby Trial, worth $8,775 to the winner, the Kentucky Oaks ($23,100), and the Debutante Stakes ($11,125). Then they waltzed home with the $96,300 grand prize. The winner: Calumet's Hill Gail...