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...experience taught him a lesson: a good jockey must control his temper. Since then, Arcaro has become the No. 1 money-winning rider in the world. Starting in 1938 on Lawrin, he won the Kentucky Derby five times, the Belmont Stakes five, the Preakness four. In 1941, he hit the Triple Crown jackpot with Whirlaway and again in 1948 with Citation. Last week at Chicago, Arcaro, 36, on a horse named Ascent, passed another milestone: winner of 3,000 races, a record for an American-born jockey...
...Count, Eddie Arcaro up, the $118,500 Belmont Stakes; in New York. Rated well by heady Eddie, longshot (13-1) One Count upset favored (1-2) Blue Man by 2½ lengths in 2:30.2, two full seconds off the stake record first set by One Count's sire, Count Fleet...
Close to 250 persons attended the funeral of Jaakko Mikkola in Memorial Church yesterday afternoon. The 66-year-old Harvard varsity track coach died Thursday at his home in Belmont...
Burial took place in the afternoon at Belmont Cemetery...
Jaakko Mikkola, one of Harvard's most beloved coaches, died suddenly Thursday at his home in Belmont less than a month before he was to retire. Funeral arrangements are as yet incomplete, but burial will probably be either Monday or Tuesday of next week. He is survived by his wife, Signe...