Word: arcaro
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...Miller, who was the Eddie Arcaro of his day, won with 28% of his 1,384 mounts that year. No such ability was required of 1950's record-breakers: Shoemaker had a 24% winning average with 1,634 mounts, Culmone 23% with...
...Eddie Arcaro, who rode the Prince, thought his three-year-old might have had the worst of the weights (130 Ibs.) against five-year-old Noor (also 130 Ibs.) -but "still and all, my hat is off to Noor." Said wrinkled Jockey Johnny Longden: "Noor is the greatest stakes horse I ever rode." Said Noor's owner, Mrs. Charles S. Howard: "I believe we'll just retire him at his peak...
Battlefield was clearly Jockey Eddie Arcaro's favorite, too. He had ridden Battlefield in most of his starts, and before the Futurity, richest and most prestigious of two-year-old tests, he was unmistakably confident. (His agent, Bones La Boyne, explained: "When the money's there, Eddie's there...
...leaders at one time." A quarter-mile from home he hustled Battlefield out of the pack and set out to collar the leader, Greentree Stable's 13-to-1 Big Stretch, hard ridden by Ted Atkinson. With a sixteenth to go, it was still Big Stretch. Then Arcaro gave his colt a touch of the whip. As Battlefield slowly closed the gap, Eddie yelled to Atkinson. "Got you!" said Eddie, and he was right-by a nose...
Battlefield's $81,715 first money brought his winnings to $198,677-an all-time record for a two-year-old colt.* It was the third Futurity win for both Arcaro and Owner Widener, who is president of Belmont Park and chairman of the Jockey Club as well as a good picker of sales yearlings...