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...mash, pick greens for them, and hope for the best. If they're sore, you tub them and ice them. Lots of good trainers just don't get the breaks, but some years you get lucky." Allen Jerkens has been getting so lucky so often that many horsemen now make him a factor in their handicapping-along with a horse's bloodlines, its past performances and its jockey...
...legend, the Hungarians are descended from Noah's grandson Magyar. The Magyars of Hungary bear no ethnic kinship to their Slavic neighbors in the Balkans, and of all Europe's peoples are related only to the Finns and Estonians. Latecomers to Central Europe, fierce fighters and skillful horsemen, they were driven southward over the centuries from their early home on the slopes of Siberia's Ural Mountains, and in 895, under the leadership of their tribal chief Arpad, crossed over the Carpathian Mountains into the great plain that is now Hungary...
...tied Sir Gordon Richards' alltime record for riding race winning thoroughbreds. Less than two hours later, Johnny won again. He picked up a big horse named Arrogate and heaved him under the wire to win the day's feature by a dirty nose. Now Grandpa Longden, 46 (horsemen with long memories swear he is 50), is the winningest jockey in the world...
...plane. It took Johnny 30 years to ride to this affluent estate, and he is still a long way from hanging up his boots. By week's end he had won ten more, for a total of 4,881. For as long as he feels like riding, horsemen will forgive him his minor transgressions-he breeds a few standardbreds and sneaks away from the track every so often to drive those wagon horses at night...
...Worries. Handicapping is no job for a man trying to make friends. Whenever horsemen gather and the flasks of truth serum circulate, someone is sure to get exercised about harsh treatment at the hands of the racing secretary...