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...Corbin could not persuade Willie to try the next step up on the track's social scale. "I don't want to be a jockey," Hartack kept saying. "I just want to be a good exercise...
...never seen a guy get out so fast. Goddarned, I was scared. I went back to the motel and I banged on the door and I woke Corbin up. I said, 'My God, Junie, I ain't even got any equipment.' He said, 'Just go to sleep.' Next day I told Corbin I was sick. But that didn't do no good. Junie bought me a saddle, boots, pants, all my equipment, and got me a valet...
...second race. He was so thoroughly scared that he forgot to pull his goggles down, could not get his hands set right on the reins and was last out of the gate. ("All I saw was horses' tails.") He finished last. "You see how silly this is?" he asked Corbin. The trainer simply answered: "You ran fine...
...days later, on a 50-to-1 shot, Bill finished out of the money once more. But Corbin was satisfied. He said, "All right, you'll ride Nickleby tomorrow, and he'll win." The new jock was still riding scared. "When I got up on Nickleby," says Hartack, "I just sat and posed. I never moved, never hit him or nothing. If I'd 'a hit him I'd have fallen off, I was so frightened. But Nickleby win and paid $18, and I break my maiden [i.e., won his first race...
...sooner was his father settled on the farm than Willie got another big break. One of the horses trained by Junie Corbin was found to be doped, and according to racing law, the trainer took the rap. Junie needed money badly, and the most valuable property he owned was Hartack's contract. Willie's services were sold to Mrs. Ada L. Rice...