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...paraded to the post last week in the first race at Jamaica,'applause pattered down from the stands. Eddie sat up straight, took off his cap and waved it high. He rated the cheer, even if it was a pleasant surprise. Three days before, he had won the Kentucky Derby???and become the first jock in history to win the Derby four times. He was now after another honor: to be the first to win horse racing's Big Three (Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes) twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...mile with a nice snug hold." Instead, he would tell him to work the half in 50 seconds?and he meant neither one second more nor one second less. Eddie learned to have a clock in his head." In New Orleans in 1933?the year Brokers Tip won the Derby???a "bug boy"* named Arcaro began to get into print. He was top rider at the meeting, with 43 wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...others, tried to decide what Party was to form a Government. There had evidently been a great deal of vacillation behind the scenes. Conservative-Liberal and Liberal-Labor coalition were hinted at, only to be later denied. Then Premier Baldwin was to resign and the King would ask Lord Derby???H. H. Asquith? Ramsay MacDonald?to form a Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gloomy Britain | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

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