Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, girls have entered steeplechases as well as quarter-horse and harness-racing events. But big-time racing has been strictly a man's preserve. Not any more. Officially recognizing the female entries, Delaware's new Dover Downs scheduled the world's first fully mixed event this week, billing it as the "Jack and Jill race" and identifying the female riders as "jockettes." At Lincoln Downs, the track bugler her alded the racing debut of Mary Clayson, a 32-year-old mother of two, with a rendition of Mame-her nickname. The girl jockeys are thriving...
...field aboard an untried 13-1 shot named Bravy Galaxy. Quashing the cynics was gratifying, she says, but her biggest thrill was having the jockeys ambush her and douse her with a bucket of water, a traditional ceremony after an apprentice rider's first win at the Big A. "To me," said Barbara Jo, who during a jockey boycott at Tropical Park had her dressing-room window smashed by a rock, "that meant that I was finally accepted by the jockeys." It was about time. By last week she chalked up an astonishing eleven victories in 22 starts...
Esposito, 27, made his big-league debut in 1964 with Chicago. In three successive seasons he racked up 20-plus goals but inevitably played in the shadow of Bobby Hull. "In Chicago," he recalls, "they called me a garbage collector. They said I picked up Bobby's garbage for points." More shade was cast by General Manager Tommy Ivan, who took a dim view of Esposito's escapades and traded him to Boston after the 1966-67 season. His antics are still puerile (he recently hid the luggage of Boston General Manager Milt Schmidt in a hotel lobby...
...Hardin's If I Were a Carpenter was a big hit for Bobby Darin, while Hardin's own recording was ignored. Few people paid any attention to Laura Nyro's version of Stoned Soul Picnic, but the song sold a million for The 5th Dimension...
Much of the company's repertory is tied, perhaps too closely, to relatively recent aspects of Mexican culture, notably the 19th century mariachi music of the French-Spanish upper class. Some of the numbers look to those with long memories, a little like the big musical bit just before, say, Ramon Novarro and Dolores del Rio could have met by moonlight in some hypothetical Latin extravaganza. Far more striking are the pieces in which Choreographer Hernandez has reconstructed, mostly out of ancient manuscripts and drawings, something resembling the ritualistic processions and dances of Mexico's Indian prehistory...