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...worst fears might be confirmed. Foolish Pleasure, with Panamanian Jockey Jacinto Vasquez at the reins, quickly dropped back to a distant twelfth, far from his usual position close to the pace. Bombay Duck, bred for speed, held the early lead, but as the stallions pounded down the backstretch, Avatar, a California mount, moved up to challenge. Foolish Pleasure, running on the rail, was still no better than seventh. "He looked as if he wasn't handling the track too well," Jolley explained later...
...pressure increased as the horses turned down the homestretch before 113,000 screaming fans. Avatar, ridden by three-time Derby Winner Bill Shoemaker, was striding powerfully into the lead, with Diabolo, another California product, second. Foolish Pleasure was fourth but charging fast as Vasquez began whipping his horse. Suddenly he got an unexpected break: Diabolo and Avatar bumped, momentarily slowing down, and Foolish Pleasure shot ahead with less than one-eighth of a mile to go. "I couldn't see anything but the wire and the track," said Vasquez. "I knew nobody could catch us then." The winning time...
...final point of interest in the Blue Grass was the performance, or lack of it, by a West Coast invader named Avatar. Jockey Willie Shoemaker says that the horse had his head down in the starting gate and got away poorly, which should explain his lack of punch...
That's okay, but it's an old saying, or a fact, that West coast horses don't win the Derby. Avatar (Santa Anita Derby winner) will be joined this Saturday by his California nemesis Diabolo (California Derby). While Diabolo is the better of the two, both horses will be fighting a long California tradition of Derby losses that will be hard to shake...
...WORRY, Be Happy, " is the message of Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, and it is in his honor that Peter Townshend wrote the "rock opera," Tommy. For us, this passivity is good advice at the movie's end, after what we've been through: a series of events so brazen and bewildering that judgement or evaluation has no place. After a horrible plane crash kills Tommy's war hero father, his mother (Ann-Margret, with much cleavage and little voice) remarries only to be walked in on late at night by the scarred figure of Husband I, thought dead...