Word: barreras
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...half a dozen rousing battles and winning four. Cauthen was up in four of the matches, and came away the victor three times. Affirmed was a lot of horse to put in the hands of a youth who was then not yet old enough to vote, but Trainer Laz Barrera had no qualms about the boy from Kentucky. Said Barrera: "I'm not worried. As a rider, Cauthen is an old man. It seems like he's been riding 100 years...
...have carried that trait. Both have canny jockeys: Baeza, who sits in the saddle like an emperor, and Angel Cordero, New York's top rider in 1975. Of the two, Baeza is considered better at saying whoa to a speed horse. Jolley and Bold Forbes' trainer, Laz Barrera, will each have to guess the tactics of the other before the Derby begins and decide upon his own. Both jockeys will then have to make split-second decisions as to whether those best laid of plans will have to be abandoned. One danger is that if Bold Forbes...
...those who have been out of the country recently and haven't heard, a Laz Barrera-trained speedster named Bold Forbes is considered by one and all to be the competition for Honest Pleasure in the Derby. he has the credentials to pull the upset; it remains to be seen whether or not he has the endurance...
...toll taken by the deprivations of lower-class life is conveyed in more subtle ways, through the grave note in an old man's voice, through the stark interior of a working man's kitchen, through the whiskered, burnt faces of workers discussing politics in a bar. Even Barrera's face seems to change with the chronological shifts in the movie, from the full-boned, clean-shaven, clear-eyed vigor of his revolutionary days to the meticulously-combed, vainly-mustachioed, narrow-eyed shiftiness of his union leadership. Such details help the film to capture a mood of quiet despair...
...movie ends with a group of workers organizing themselves according to revolutionary principles and asserting their demands by forcing their way into Barrera's victory celebration and machine-gunning him. This is something of a piece of wishful fantasy on the part of the filmmakers, who certainly are aware that radical agitation in Argentina, as in the U.S., stems not from workers but from middle-class students and intellectuals, much like themselves. The Montoneros, the Marxist guerrilla group responsible for the assassination of union chiefs in Argentina, includes few workers...