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...Stumpy Jockey Steve Brooks, 36, who has been going around in winning track circles for almost 20 years, rode to greater glory at Florida's Gulfstream Park. Slashing away with his skillful whip, Steve got a two-year-old bay filly named Tempest Tossed to stay in front of her field for three furlongs, and became the seventh jockey in U.S. racing history to ride 3,000 winners...
...book bettors got some new form to fret over when Kentucky Derby hopefuls went to the post in both Florida and New York. Artfully steered by Champion Jockey Willie Hartack, Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn worked his way between horses to catch lightly favored Lincoln Road and win Gulfstream's Florida Derby by half a length. At Jamaica, Elkcam Stable's Hubcap just stole the Swift Stakes from Warner Stable's Levelation by a dirty nose...
...Grumman Gulfstream, a turboprop slightly smaller than a DC-3, which Grumman hopes to have on the market by 1959. Cruising speed: 350 m.p.h. with twelve passengers. Price...
Atlanta fretted about the dying winter's snowy last fling, which nipped peach buds and forsythia blooms brought forth early by a false spring. Wichita grumbled about its flurry of nonfatal but highly uncomfortable flu. Miami complained of nagging rain-but 23,026 racing fans braved it on Gulfstream Park's opening day to bet $1,863,447. Texas rejoiced in the recent soaking rains that brightened parched fields with blankets of green and stirred hopes that the seven-year drought might be ending at last...
...Running under top weight of 130 Ibs. and held so snugly by Jockey Willie Shoemaker that he galloped most of the race with his head twisted sideways, Rex Ellsworth's great chestnut colt Swaps breezed home to win the Broward Handicap at Florida's Gulfstream Park by 2lengths, set a world's record (1:39.6) for the one-mile 70-yd. distance...