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Trainer Horatio Luro and Jockey Bill Hartack had other ideas. At the break, Hartack gently urged Northern Dancer into third place-two lengths behind Big Pete and Quadrangle, a neck ahead of Hill Rise. "Hill Rise was the horse I had to beat," he said. "The track was very tiring, and I wasn't worried about the horses out front-1 knew that they would come back to me." For nearly a mile, Northern Dancer and Hill Rise ran practically side by side. Then, on the final turn...
...second choice for the horse he wanted to ride. Willie Shoemaker, a gentler genius, was supposed to ride Northern Dancer, a speedy bay colt owned by Canadian Millionaire E. P. Taylor. But Shoemaker changed his mind and switched to Hill Rise, the California champion (TIME, April 24). That left Hartack with Northern Dancer, and a chance to do a little embarrassing...
...paddock, Hartack got his orders from Trainer Horatio Luro, a transplanted Argentine, whose own Derby record (a first and a third in two tries) was nothing to scoff at. Luro kept it crisp: Northern Dancer was inclined to sulk when he was whipped. "I told Hartack that I do not care for any punishment," he said later, "none whatsoever. Beyond that, I did not tell him anything. He knew the horse. And he had won three Derbies, hadn't he?" Odds at post time: 7 to 5 on Hill Rise; 3 to 1 on Northern Dancer...
...field of twelve horses broke from the gate and swept around the first turn. Hartack kept the Dancer under a tight rein. Mr. Brick, a 16 to 1 long shot, set the pace through the backstretch; Hill Rise was sixth, the Dancer seventh. Then Hartack glanced to his right, saw Shoemaker flick his reins to urge Hill Rise forward. That was the signal. Hartack clucked to Northern Dancer, and in one wonderful burst of speed, the little colt bolted past Hill Rise, past Mr. Brick, past everybody, and into the clear. Turning for home, the Dancer had a two-length...
...winner's circle, the garland of roses from his fourth Derby victory around his horse's neck, Bill Hartack heard the time: 2 min. flat, and a new record, ⅛ sec. better than the old mark set by Decidedly in 1962-with Bill Hartack aboard...