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...Back at Bay Meadows last week, the wrinkled-faced little jockey won eight races, then went down south of the border to win three more on Sunday. That made his score for the season 293, nine more than Steve Brooks. Longden did not have the power of an Eddie Arcaro (who sometimes looks as if he gets off and lifts a horse across the finish) or Earl Sande's rare judgment of pace. But people liked to bet on his horses because they got a run for their money. Besides a high reputation for honesty, he has a knack...
...five horses got away at the start, Assault stumbled and almost dug his nose in the dirt. Smart Jockey Eddie Arcaro quickly pulled him together, but Assault was already twelve lengths in the ruck. The only horse behind him was Stymie, a notorious laggard whose specialty is a hair-raising burst of speed at the end. Assault was carrying the top handicap weight in the race (133 lbs.), but on the backstretch, when Arcaro decided to move, Assault began running...
...whizzed by Larky Day, who had set a track record at Atlantic City a week before, then set sail for the pace-setting Windfields. Assault swept by Windfields too, and turned into the stretch. Just to be safe, for six-year-old Stymie was beginning to move up, Arcaro stung Assault's hide once with the whip. Then, looking over his shoulder, Arcaro saw that there was nothing to worry about and eased up to win, three lengths ahead of gallant old Stymie. The victory, worth $38,100, boosted Assault's total...
...urge to sting Jet Pilot's chestnut rump with the whip-he remembered that Jet Pilot didn't take kindly to whipping (and Owner Arden disapproves too). The result was the closest Derby finish in eleven years. From far behind, the 2-to-1 favorite, Phalanx, Eddie Arcaro up, came up strong and was only a head behind Jet Pilot at the end. Another head back was Faultless. California's big hope, On Trust, was a close fourth. The time, over an off track...
Hewitt is 6 feet 5 inches tall, or 21 hands, and usually leaves the jockey chores to Eddie Arcaro, who is somewhat smaller, but he is quite familiar with the sport of kings. In one outing at Suffolk Downs Hewitt picked 15 horses in the money out of 16 races...