Word: hartack
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...When Hall of Fame jockey Bill Hartack won his first Kentucky Derby in 1957, he didn't get all the credit. The 23-year-old was the beneficiary of the most famous slipup in Derby history: opponent Bill Shoemaker's misjudging the finish line and slowing prematurely. Yet Hartack--who rode 4,272 winners in 21,535 mounts--proved it was no fluke by becoming one of only two jockeys (the other was Eddie Arcaro) to win the Derby five times. Luck, he later said, had nothing to do with it: "I rode the right horses, and I rode them...