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Like several million other doubters, sad-faced Jockey Eddie Arcaro didn't believe that Assault was as good a horse as his record said he was. Like the other doubters, Arcaro had never ridden him. The horse that began the season by winning the Big Three-the Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes-had been so-so ever since. It took less than two minutes last week to change Arcaro's mind, and almost everybody else's. In the $25,000 (winner-take-all) Pimlico Special, with Arcaro up for the first time, Assault came...
...even the Morning Telegraph had failed to report this little idiosyncrasy of Mahout's. Anyhow, the crowd was busy counting its chickens. The New York students, who love all favorites, were enraptured: here was a stake horse, with Arcaro up, out for a gallop; any price was a good one. They sent $140,000 into the machines, backing Mahout down to 1-4, then sat back to await the obvious...
Mahout broke well and closely followed Alamond and School Tie for a quarter of a mile - to his favorite spot near the little stable road. There he stopped being conventional. Bolting towards the outside rail, he dug his four feet into the loam, and neither Arcaro's bat nor his backer's prayers could move him an inch...
Front-running Spy Song and stretch-driving Hampden were closest. Elizabeth Arden Graham's even-money entry finished out of the money. Knockdown ran out of gas after seven furlongs; Lord Boswell, with usually shrewd Eddie Arcaro up, twice ran into pockets on the backstretch. This week's $100,000 Preakness at Baltimore would tell whether Assault was really that good...
Last week, after waiting around to see which of several mounts he wanted in the Derby, 30-year-old Jockey Eddie ("Banana Nose") Arcaro, who has ridden the winners of three Derbies, climbed up on Lord Boswell in the 1⅛-mile Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. What happened reminded oldtimers of such valiant past performers as Display and Exterminator. After almost getting left at the post, Boss Man got going when the race was nearly over, charged hell-for-leather through & around horses in the stretch, won by a neck. Said amazed Eddie Arcaro...