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...Distributed thus: Jockey Guerin, 113 Ibs.; equipment (saddle, girth and saddle cloth), 4½. Ibs.; flat lead weights in saddlecloth slots, 12?...
...Dancer was bumped badly on the first turn. The post-mortems suggest that he did not get the best ride from Jockey Eric Guerin. The Dancer made a tremendous, express-train move, and pulled inside to the rail behind the front-running Dark Star. He was boxed in by a horse to his right and so Guerin had to pull up, swing him out and demand a big rush all over again. Once more, the Dancer surged in, pounded by Guerin all the way down the stretch, and almost caught Dark Star. He lost by a head. "In that last...
...jockeys' room, the riders slip on their silks. Thin-faced Eric Guerin, the Cajun-born veteran who is about to ride the Dancer for the 20th time (in 21 races), still feels special about it. "You can try to tell someone how good it is, how strong he feels and what it's like to ride him," he says, "but you can't; a guy's just got to ride him to know."Jockey Jack Westrope, whose mount, Magic Lamp, is a 30-to-1 shot, says: "I'm not afraid of the grey horse." Guerin looks at Westrope...
...down to 1-4) gasped as the field rounded the turn at the head of the stretch. With only a quarter of a mile of the mile-long race to go, the Dancer was fifth, a full seven lengths behind front-running Straight Face. At that point Jockey Eric Guerin gave the Dancer four sharp raps with his whip...
...Saratoga Springs, N.Y.. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Native Dancer, Eric Guerin up. romped, as expected (odds: 1 to 20). to his 17th victory in 18 starts, taking the $27,900, 1¼-mile Travers Stakes by 5½ lengths, in 2:05 3/5. Winner's purse...