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...next Eddie Arcaro will probably speak Spanish better than English. His name will be something like Baeza or Ycaza or Valenzuela, and he will grimace when gringo railbirds make it "Bazza," or "Yacca Zacca," or "Vaylinzella." But that will not matter much, because his saddlebags will be stuffed with Yanqui dollars and back home in Panama or Mexico he will be as popular as the classiest matador de toros. The Presidente will invite him to parties, generals will shake his hand, and when he wins the Kentucky Derby, the biggest race of all, his countrymen will drape sweet-smelling flowers...
...never seen a crowd so big," said Eddie Arcaro, wondering at the 120,000 people who packed Churchill Downs' creaking grandstand. "I can't remember a Derby creating so much excitement...
...Gulfstream Park, he rode Johnsal, a three-year-old colt, to victory in a $3,000, six-furlong sprint. For Johnsal, it was win No. 1 in a year of trying. For Brooks, it was win No. 4,000, in 25 years of succeeding. Only Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro, Willie Shoemaker and Britain's Sir Gordon Richards have won more races...
...long shot: the $231,000 Arc de Triomphe, France's richest horse race, run over Longchamps' egg-shaped 1½-mi. grass course. Finishing a dismal tenth was the U.S. Cinderella horse Carry Back, given what Owner Jack Price and other observers (including ex-Jockey Eddie Arcaro) called a "stupid" ride by Australia's Scobie Breasley. "Two hours before post time, Breasley was still in the dining room, having a hearty lunch and sipping champagne," said Price angrily. "At the eighth pole-where ,Carry Back usually makes his best run-it looked like Breasley's efforts...
...winner's circle, the garland of roses from his third Kentucky Derby victory around his horse's head, Bill Hartack heard the time: 2 min. ⅔ sec., and a new record, a full second better than the old mark set by Whirlaway in 1951, with Eddie Arcaro aboard...