Word: braulio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wins the Kentucky Derby, the biggest race of all, his countrymen will drape sweet-smelling flowers around his neck and hoist him to their shoulders and parade him through the streets. If he had not been too busy riding horses in New York last week, Panama's Braulio Baeza, 23, could have had just such a homecoming. Panamanians were woozy with pride. Aboard Chateaugay, Baeza had become the first foreign jockey ever to win the Kentucky Derby. As if that was not enough, the second horse, Never Bend, was ridden by another Panamanian, Manuel Ycaza. In Panama City fans...
...back in seventh place, twelve lengths behind Never Bend, Jockey Braulio Baeza was sitting chilly on Chateaugay. "He wanted to run" said Baeza, 23, a poker-faced Panamanian who rode his first U.S. horse scarcely three years ago. "I took a good hold and just waited...
Globemaster-a habitual front runner-spurted boldly into the lead. Through the backstretch, Panamanian Jockey Braulio Baeza kept Sherluck comfortably second, just off Globemaster's slow pace. For the favored Carry Back, "there was no running room anywhere," said his jockey, Johnny Sellers. "When I called on him, he just spit the bit out." In the stretch, Sherluck overhauled Globemaster to win by 2¼ lengths and pay $132.10 for a $2 ticket. Fifteen lengths behind, Carry Back was a dismal seventh...