Word: jacinto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene is played out in the San Jacinto Plaza of El Paso, Texas (pop. 381,500), in the dawn hours of most Mondays. Sedans cruise slowly around the square, their drivers eying clusters of young women. Every so often, one of the women is beckoned from the sidelines. Deals are struck and the cars pull away...
...people at Belmont and for millions watching on CBS, which put up $350,000 to televise the event. Then, 3½ furlongs and some 35 seconds into the race, with Ruffian slightly ahead, there was a sharp snap. "Like a pistol shot," said the filly's jockey Jacinto Vasquez. Ruffian's right front ankle had cracked. The cheering faded as the afflicted horse pounded on, then slowed to a stop with the fragile sesamoid bones above the hoof completely shattered. Within nine hours Ruffian was dead, put down with the assent of her owners, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart...
...more than Secretariat's at that age). Her hindquarters are huge, and she puts them to good use. Ruffian runs with a smooth, gliding stride, and no sign of strain. "She fools you because she runs so smooth and easy," says Panamanian Jockey Jacinto Vasquez, who also rides Foolish Pleasure. Says Trainer Frank Whiteley Jr., "Her speed scares the hell...
When the field of 15 thoroughbreds broke from the starting gate Saturday afternoon, Jolley thought that his worst fears might be confirmed. Foolish Pleasure, with Panamanian Jockey Jacinto Vasquez at the reins, quickly dropped back to a distant twelfth, far from his usual position close to the pace. Bombay Duck, bred for speed, held the early lead, but as the stallions pounded down the backstretch, Avatar, a California mount, moved up to challenge. Foolish Pleasure, running on the rail, was still no better than seventh. "He looked as if he wasn't handling the track too well," Jolley explained...
...Rogallo in his latest flick to swoop down on the bad guy, a far more spectacular flight was made recently when Jim Weir, 26, a gardener, and Burke Ewing, a 19-year-old student, both from San Diego, jumped from the top of 10,830-ft. Mount San Jacinto above Palm Springs. Recalls Weir: "I was in a screaming dive toward the mountain and there was nothing I could do about it. That was it, the end. But just as quickly as the drop started, it stopped. I seemed to have control of the kite and was in relatively smooth...