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Married. Xavier Cugat, 66, ever-loving bandleader; and Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza, 21, his singer; he for the fourth time; in Las Vegas...
...mile race, Kauai King had a two-length lead which he widened to as much as four lengths in the backstretch. Abe's Hope, second choice of the bettors at 3-1, was hopelessly outrun. One by one, Kauai King's other challengers made their moves. Braulio Baeza rushed Stupendous up along the rail; Earlie Fires ranged up on the outside aboard Blue Skyer; Johnny Sellers took Advocator wide, came within inches of wresting the lead away from Kauai King on the last turn. "I had him hooked," sighed Sellers afterward, "but I didn't have enough...
...Nose. With win bets only allowed, Graustark broke in front and flashed to a six-length lead. Everyone expected that to be it. Jockey Braulio Baeza eased up, and suddenly from dead last, there came Willie Shoemaker on Abe's Hope. The horses were neck and neck at the top of the stretch-then Abe's Hope drew out to a half-length lead. Baeza went to the whip, and Graustark came on hard. But not hard enough. Abe's Hope won by a nose...
Cash for the Contract. In 1961 Baeza nursed a long shot (odds: 65-1) named Sherluck to victory in the l½-mile Belmont Stakes. In 1963, aboard a 9-1 shot, Chateaugay, he made up ten lengths to win the Kentucky Derby and realize his boyhood dream. In 1964 Baeza had a falling-out with Hooper, settled it by buying back his contract for $100,000 in cash. He soon got half of that back from one horse alone: Ogden Phipps's Buckpasser, who last year won $568,096, more money than any other two-year...
This year promises to be even better -barring any more accidents. Baeza has the mount on John Galbreath's unbeaten Graustark, who might become the first Triple Crown winner in 17 years. Baeza is practicing for the Derby, Preakness and Belmont by winning just about everything else in sight. Last month he became the first jockey ever to win five races in one day at Hialeah. Twice, he has won four in a day; six times, he has won three. Last week, with ten days still left of Hialeah's 40-day meeting, Baeza had already...