Word: crozier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Derby, with only mild urging from Sellers ("I just shook the stick at him"), Carry Back made up 20 lengths to come home three-quarters of a length in front of Crozier. In the Preakness, (see cuts), Carry Back was bumped by a couple of horses as he broke from the gate, fell back to last place, 14 lengths behind Globemaster. "I was plenty worried," says Jockey Sellers. "He scared the willies out of me because the track has sharp turns, and it's hard to make up lost ground. But I think he disliked all that dirt flying...
...post time, the Derby still was anybody's race. The coffee-colored track at Churchill Downs was soggy from heavy rains the day before, and the big, 15-horse field included Crozier, a courageous black colt that won the Derby Trial in record time, and California's Four and Twenty, a descendant...
Finally, Sellers took matters into his own hands. "I shook the stick at him," he said, "and he started to run." Veering to the outside, Carry Back flashed past the exhausted Globemaster and pulled even with Crozier. Again Sellers waved his whip; again Carry Back responded. At the finish, the brown colt was in front by almost a length. Carry Back had earned another $120,500, and crewcut Jockey Sellers-at 23, the nation's leading jockey (TIME, March 24)-had won his first Kentucky Derby. "All I had to do," said Sellers modestly, "was ask that horse...