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...hand at diagnosing "trouble" horses. Seven years ago, Arcaro got an SOS call from Ben Jones in Louisville, four days before the Derby. Whirlaway had Ben worried; he wouldn't go around turns. The more other jockeys fought him, the more he drifted wide. Trouble-shooter Arcaro experimented in a workout; he took a long rein and let Whirlaway follow another horse around the turn. It worked so well that Whirlaway (Arcaro up) won the Derby by eight lengths in the fastest time it has ever been...
This year Arcaro has won two of the four big $100,000 races run so far (the Santa Anita Handicap and the Derby). He doesn't shine as brilliantly in the cheap run-of-the-mill races, on which 26 million people do most of their betting. Says he: "Cheap horses don't need management?they just...
...Percenters. In 16 turbulent years Eddie Arcaro has ridden 11,868 races. He has won 2,223 of them. One reason why Eddie Arcaro is still at it (the average jockey lasts only four or five years) is that he seldom has to visit steam boxes to keep his weight down. Most jockeys resort to all the tricks, including taking cathartics, to lose weight, and sometimes lose their health as well...
...Arcaro owns a home in the suburbs. It is a nine-room stone-&-stucco house on a dead-end street in Rockville Centre, L.I. ?safe for his two kids, Carolyn, 6,?and Bobby, 4. Arcaro, who has been living soft since he quit as contract jockey for the Greentree Stable 1½ years ago, sleeps until 9 a.m. He used to get up at 6 a.m., like most jockeys. Now a free lancer, he eats a leisurely breakfast, and at 11:30 a.m. hops into his Cadillac and drives to work...
...track, he checks to see what mounts he has. Like every jockey, he has an agent to make his riding engagements. Arcaro's agent, Melvin ("Bones") La Boyne, has an easier time of it than most. Because it costs no more to hire the best jockey (a flat-rate $50 for a winning mount on big tracks,** $25 for a loser), trainers seek out Bones...