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When it was time to march to the gate, Smarty, a deep liver chestnut standing at a modest 15 hands 3 in., was dwarfed by some of the big battleship horses he would be racing against. But starting from the six spot in a 10-horse field, jockey Stewart Elliott, 39, ran a smart race that belied the horse's size...
...little-known rider, Elliott overcame demons to get this far. A back injury and weight gain when he was 19 kept him out of racing for 18 months. A recovering alcoholic, he paid a price for his habit with a year's probation after beating a friend with a pool cue. He also once assaulted a girlfriend. "I did things I'm not proud of," he has said...
...Thursday, when every conscious female will be watching "Joey," "Survivor" or "The O.C." in its new time slot anyway.) Which means that next season we get not one but two editions of Tyra Banks' ingenious masterpiece of ambition and bitchiness. Bridging the months between them will be "The Missy Elliott Project," which UPN describes as a hip-hop version of "Top Model," in which a group of aspiring performers hits the road to get their freak on and compete to become her protege...
Since he retired two years ago, Elliott has carried that message to churches, radio stations and Lions Club meetings. On May 17, Brown's 50th anniversary, he will take part in a forum on South Carolina public television on the ruling's legacy. So far he has received a cold shoulder from many of the town's whites. But his goal, he insists, is not only to thaw Summerton's race relations but also to improve its dismal schools and economy, which in recent years has lost bids to attract large employers because of their concerns about the low-skilled...
Some blacks in Summerton are also wary of Elliott's efforts. It's not because they doubt his convictions but because they fear that the biracial group he recently helped create, the Summerton Revitalization Corporation, wants to bigfoot on what they insist should be a black-led local commemoration of the Brown anniversary. "Mr. Elliott is very sincere," says Joe De Laine Jr., 71, son of the late Rev. Joseph De Laine, who led the fight to get Briggs v. Elliott heard in court but then had to flee South Carolina after Ku Klux Klansmen attacked his house...