Word: coucci
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Lehman saw Jockeys Don Meade and Silvio Coucci each win three races in one afternoon. Jockey Coucci's mounts were Fidelis, Deduce and General Farley, named for the Postmaster General who arrived later in the week...
After the Travers, Saratoga race-goers will have two more weeks in which to enjoy the contest for riding honors between two crack jockeys, 19-year-old Coucci, contract rider for Mrs. Payne Whitney, and Meade who rides for Colonel Bradley. Feature stake races for 2-year-olds in the last two weeks of the meet will be the Sanford, the Grand Union Hotel and the Hopeful. In these are entered Boxthorn and Balladier who have this year helped to make Colonel Bradley the leading owner at the track. They will run against Mrs. Payne Whitney's Plat...
...National Steeplechase for which the Whitneys put up the cup. Trainer for Mrs. Whitney-who "rents" her husband's horses from Langollen Stables. Inc., races them under her name-is James W. ("Big Jim") Healy. not to be confused with Tom Healey, who trains for Sonny Whitney. Sylvio Coucci is her ablest jockey. Financial adviser to Langollen Stable-and manager of most of the other racing enterprises of all the Whitneys-is Major Louie A. Beard, onetime captain of the U. S. Army polo team. Mrs. Whitney's racing string was enlarged from 41 horses...
Jockey Mills's closest rival this season has been a sloe-eyed Italian urchin, one year younger and six pounds lighter. He, Jockey Sylvio Coucci of New York, had a success at Agua Caliente a year ago. The Greentree Stables, owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney, bought Jockey Coucci's contract from the Coburn Brothers (John and George), onetime racehorse owning partners of Jack Dempsey. His record with 835 mounts this year has been 161 winners, 143 seconds. He has won only twelve important stakes this season, to Mills's 18, but Coucci's twelve were worth...
...Morton L. Schwartz's Gusto, three-year-old grandson of Man o' War, with Jockey Silvio Coucci up: the Arlington Classic, year's richest ($88,100) U. S. three-year-old race; by three lengths, with Stepenfetchit second, field horses third and fourth, Top Flight, the favorite, fifth, Faireno eighth; in Chicago...