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...stays in the handicap division and keeps the record clean. That goes for Man o' War too.* Citation will be lucky if he wins half of 'em from now on." Others thought that Jockey Brooks had shipped his whip too soon, that a jock like cagey Eddie Arcaro might have ridden the big horse home in front. Since Eddie had not yet signed for a mount in the Santa Anita Handicap, some even speculated that he might yet be Citation's pilot for the big race...
...Jockey Eddie ("Heady Eddie") Arcaro, riding Brookmeade Stable's Blue Hills, was two lengths in front as the horses flashed past the grandstand for the second time in last week's $15,000 added Pimlico Cup. As he had at the end of many a 1½ mile event, Eddie pulled up. Eddie's error: the Pimlico Cup, longest of U.S. stake races, is 2½ miles. The awful truth dawned when the other horses sped by and one jockey cried derisively: "We have to go around again, buddy...
...Arcaro got Blue Hills going again but he finished second behind Pilaster. Said Arcaro: "Maybe I should have carried three peas in my mouth and spit one out each time we went by the stand...
Last year, he rode (and lost) his first race at Ak-Sar-Ben track near Omaha. He struck his stride last winter at Santa Anita, where Oldtimer Eddie Arcaro decided during a race one day that the kid needed taking down a notch. Said Arcaro later: "I rode up even with him and looked him in the eye. He looked right back at me, cold as you please-and first thing I knew I'd been beaten." Glisson won the $100,000-added Santa Anita Derby on Old Rockport, became the long-shot darling of the California bettors, then...
...late summer, at least three blue-blooded young horses were running nose-and-nose for the two-year-old championship. The best finisher was chunky, bay Hill Prince, beaten only once-and that time by what his rider, Jockey Eddie Arcaro, confessed was "a damn bad ride." At Saratoga in August, a colt named Middle-ground outran everything in sight, and in the Midwest a streak of bay lightning known as Curtice was winning again & again. According to custom, the three of them should have had it out last week in the Belmont Futurity, the race that decides the juvenile...