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...another rider rammed him right after the start of the Cowdin Stakes at Aqueduct. Arcaro saw red. He wheeled his horse out, cracked him with the whip and went after the offender. "I must have done that next eighth in 10 flat," he says. He caught up with the other jockey, Vincent Nodarse, and al most put him over the fence. The stewards called Arcaro up to the stand, asked him if he had done it on purpose, and expected the usual denial. Instead Arcaro blurted: "I'd of killed the son of a bitch if I could...
...Shilling (who used to grab hold of other horses' bridles) and the jockeys who were experts at leg-locking.* It was the moving picture camera that did it. At Jamaica six cameras now record every foot of every race. "It's foolish to try any rough stuff now," says Arcaro. He also gives a large share of credit to gentlemanly Jockey Ted Atkinson, who helped raise the standard of sportsmanship on New York tracks. "Guys will shut him off, but when he gets them in a bad spot later he never takes advantage of it. He kinda set a style...
...knows from experience how rough Eddie used to be is Ben-Jones, a pretty rough guy himself. Arcaro, riding for someone else, sometimes crashed horses that Jones was training. Says Eddie: "He's known from Maine to Spain as a tough man. He'd get mad, but he'd cool out." In 16 years, between feuds, Arcaro has ridden just three horses...
...Kentucky Derby. "Not me," says Eddie. "I want no part of him." But Jones talked him into it, and Eddie got the biggest wallop of his life ("You only win your first Derby once"). The next time it was Whirlaway, and the Triple Crown. This February, the chances of Arcaro riding Citation for Ben Jones were about 100 to 1 against. Eddie, up on Assault, had crashed into Ben's pride & joy, Armed, in the Widener Handicap...
Then Jockey Al Snider, Citation's rider, went fishing off the Florida Keys and was drowned. Ben was on the lookout for a jockey to ride his wonder horse in the Derby. This time it was Eddie Arcaro who made the phone call. Al Snider had been one of Arcaro's best friends; his widow got a share of Eddie's Derby winnings...