Word: horsemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bowie last week, his services were in such demand by horsemen that he practically had his choice of mounts. Last week, he rode his 256th winner. The only jockeys who have won more races this year, are Oldtimers Johnny Longden (301) and Ted Atkinson...
Wonder-Boy Welles has an imaginative way with a camera. His stark and gloomy settings create a fine mood for tragedy. The 11th Century Scotland of this movie is a rough, barbaric country with a castle jutting out of the sharp rock; hard-eyed horsemen gallop like wild west villains across the foggy landscape; the wide palace courtyard is full of mud puddles and pigs. Welles has thus succeeded in surrounding the plot with an atmosphere that makes all the crude violence believable; photographically, this mood is sustained. Dramatically, it is often violated, both by transpositions of text...
...Citation's 23rd victory in 25 starts (including the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont, American Derby), and boosted his earnings to $744,650, third highest in history. There had never been another horse like him since Man O' War, and plenty of horsemen were arguing that he was the best ever...
...gentry. He took up fox hunting and began to give examples of a personal courage about which he is quite bland but which amazes his friends. They still wince at the thought of the dauntless little pink-coated figure dashing at fences and ditches that would unnerve more experienced horsemen...
...best tracks, known to horsemen as "the big apple," where rich stables race for prestige as well as profits, not nearly so many horses are "pulled" as the glower ing fans suspect. And if Eddie Arcaro is glowered at more than anybody, it is really a backhanded compliment: fans can't understand how he can lose. Arcaro tries to be philosophical about the booing: "I guess they're entitled to beef if they want to. They're losing their money...