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...Bill Hartack obviously gets along with horses lots better than with people. He has no use for sportswriters ("They're always misquoting me"), racing officials ("They have too much power"), or even his fellow jockeys ("None of them are my friends"). But with horses, Jockey Hartack, 31, shares a mystical communion. Nobody has ever won so many stakes (43) or so much money ($3,000,000) in a single season. And when it comes to the biggest race of all, the Kentucky Derby, Hartack is in a class by himself: going into last week's 90th Derby...
...backers like the lengthened odds on their horse. He might be smaller than Hill Rise, and there might be some doubt about his ability to go the 1¼-mile Derby distance-but he has still won ten out of 13 races, and his new rider, Bill Hartack, is an old hand at winning the Kentucky Derby (three times in the last seven years). Panamanian Jockey Manuel Ycaza, who won the mount on The Scoundrel when Shoe maker begged off, was not about to concede either. And before the week was out, Eastern horsemen were singing the praises of Paul...
...stretch turn, exhausted, Ridan bore out and began to fade. The lead changed hands three times. In mid-stretch, Ridan gallantly came on again-only by now it was too late. On the far outside, Hartack was making his move. Chopping viciously with his whip, he drove Decidedly past the winded Ridan, past all the others. At the finish, Decidedly was 2¼ lengths in front...
...winner's circle, the garland of roses from his third Kentucky Derby victory around his horse's head, Bill Hartack heard the time: 2 min. ⅔ sec., and a new record, a full second better than the old mark set by Whirlaway in 1951, with Eddie Arcaro aboard...
...race -he had pulled up lame the day before-and the smart money figured Ridan at 2 to 1. Breaking perfectly, the horses pounded around the fading arc of the clubhouse turn, fought for position on the rail. As they swept into the back stretch, Hartack might have permitted himself a grim smile. Up ahead, Ridan refused to obey the commands of Jockey Manuel Ycaza and spurted into a three-length lead. Ycaza stood bolt upright in the stirrups, desperately trying to hold the stubborn colt back. It was a losing fight...