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...Flamingo Stakes, Jockey Manuel Ycaza whipped at his bay mount. Jewel's Reward, with understandable zeal. But Jewel's Reward flinched from the lefthanded slashing, carried wide and collided with Calumet's fast-closing Tim Tarn. And when Tim Tam, with Champion Willie Hartack aboard, was nosed out at the wire, Willie lodged a protest. He did not have to. The stewards were already scrutinizing the movies of the race. They decided that Tim Tam had indeed been fouled, set Jewel's Reward back to second place and named Willie's colt the winner...
...Willie Hartack started our Man o' War granddaughter, Bright Fate, to fame, broke her maiden and then the track record for one and one-sixteenth miles at Charles Town in 1954 after other jockeys had failed to bring her home in the money...
...Delphi Museum there is a bronze statue of a charioteer made about 470 B.C. Jockeys don't seem to have changed much over the centuries-compare Chapin's Hartack with his ancient counterpart...
...With Jockey Willie Hartack beating out his usual rib-rattling tattoo (TIME, Feb. 10). Calumet Farm's Iron Liege sprinted home by half a length at Florida's Hialeah to win the $65,700 McLennan Handicap and Calumet stable's first major purse of the 1958 racing season...
...Today Hartack spends more than $5,000 a year on his equipment, including more than 40 pairs of boots, some $1,300 worth of saddle girths, five dozen goggles, 36 pairs of breeches and a dozen saddles...