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Trainer Smith to Jockey Guerin [TIME, May 12]: "Get on that Duffy...
...Readers Boone and Gray get off their old grey mares. "On the Bill Daly" is older, better known and more widely used; "on the Duffy" means exactly the same thing. Nevertheless, TIME erred in quoting the phrase from a news story; Trainer Smith's actual instructions to Jockey Guerin were more practical than picturesque: "Go right to the front-try to get a breakaway at the gate, and nurse him all the way along...
Trainer Tom Smith thought so too. Last week, Silent Tom had only two words to say about Jet Pilot's chances: "We'll win." To Jockey Eric Guerin his instructions were: "Get on that Duffy [get the lead] and nurse him home...
...Jockey Guerin did just that. Out in front from the start, Jet Pilot was tiring as he entered the stretch. Jockey Guerin resisted an urge to sting Jet Pilot's chestnut rump with the whip-he remembered that Jet Pilot didn't take kindly to whipping (and Owner Arden disapproves too). The result was the closest Derby finish in eleven years. From far behind, the 2-to-1 favorite, Phalanx, Eddie Arcaro up, came up strong and was only a head behind Jet Pilot at the end. Another head back was Faultless. California's big hope...
...Bacillus of Calmette and Guerin," the two French scientists who developed the vaccine in cattle and first used it on human patients...