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...gate No. 1 was Genuine Risk, the filly who broke a 65-year tradition to outrun the colts in the Kentucky Derby this year. In gate No. 2 was Codex, the California colt who beat Genuine Risk in the Preakness despite a controversial ride by his jockey that resulted in a foul claim and an almost unheard-of appeal for state authorities to overturn the results of a Triple Crown classic. Given the circumstances, Cassidy might have bypassed the traditional "And they're off!" in favor of a salutation more suitable to the ill will of a horse race...
Overlooked in the emotional duel between Genuine Risk and Codex was a typical Belmont field: a collection of dangerous colts that had been lightly raced through the spring, lying in wait for the favorites to falter. Among them was Temperence Hill. The Kentucky-bred bay colt had won the Arkansas Derby, then faltered in his final Triple Crown prep races and been returned to his home stable on the Belmont backstretch to recoup. Trainer Joe Cantey decided to test his horse in the Withers Stakes, one week after the Kentucky Derby, but the colt finished second and Temperence Hill...
...deal with prosecutors in exchange for testifying-claimed that eleven jockeys knew of the schemes, including three riders who were in the Preakness last weekend. The trio: Jacinto Vasquez, jockey of the Kentucky Derby-winning filly Genuine Risk; Angel Cordero Jr., a two-time Derby winner who rode Codex; and Jorge Velasquez, Colonel Moran's rider in last week's Preakness. Also implicated by Amy were Jean Cruguet, jockey for 1977 Triple Crown Winner Seattle Slew; Braulio Baeza; and Eddie Belmonte...
...misnomer and misspelling was added missed opportunity. The top California colt, Codex, was ineligible to com pete after his trainer forgot to enter the horse's name on the Kentucky Derby nominating list. Codex had won the Hollywood Derby and beaten Affirmed's time in winning the Santa Anita Derby, so his absence weakened the field considerably. Training injuries kept other key colts from the contest. Adelphi University Mathematics Professor William Quirin ran a computer comparison of Derby entries and passed harsh judgment: "This is the second worst crop of three-year-olds to come along...
Precise Images. Most of Codex Madrid I is filled with exquisitely fine engineering drawings: designs for self-releasing hoist grapnels, frictionless bearings, clock escapements, wire-making machines, worm drives and so on. For Leonardo, the drawn image was more precise than the written. One of the striking things about the machines in the Madrid notebooks is how they prefigure the future history of formal engineering draftsmanship without becoming schematic diagrams. They are conceptions rather than blueprints, but conceptions that one could take to a factory and have built tomorrow. More over, they are conceived as a series...