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...After missing in five races at Florida's Tropical Park, Jockey Willie Hartack (TIME, Nov. 28) climbed aboard the eighth-race favorite, Athena, and booted home his 400th winner of the year. Hartack moved up with Willie Shoemaker, the only other 400 winner, just in time. He will have precious few racing days left to mount more winners: for letting his horse bear out in an earlier race, he drew a ten-day suspension...
...Jacksonville, if all a man had was a pocketful of losing tickets? Raising a stake was getting to be a tough proposition. Too many short-priced horses were galloping home; too many potential long shots were going to the post at low odds just because a jockey named Willie Hartack was perched in the saddle...
...winners. He is an odds-on favorite to wind up the year as the country's leading jockey. More impressive still, he has drawn a bead on the 400 victory mark, a record broken only by Willie Shoemaker (with 485 in 1953), the only jock to outscore Hartack for the last two years...
Third Try. Willie Hartack's success story, once it got started, moved almost as fast as the horses he rides. Born in Ebensburg, Pa. in 1932, Willie graduated from high school too scrawny to work in the coal mines with his father, so skinny that he was even passed over by his draft board. He became a potential Dead End kid, living as high as he could by gambling and shooting craps...
...Little (no Ibs.) Willie Hartack, the year's leading jockey, turned in one of the season's flashiest performances on Maryland's Laurel race track. In an eight-race program, Willie booted home six winners, including Rhy Dress, which galloped home second in the $12,816 Maryland Futurity but was awarded first on a foul...