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...most famous riders have been named in court testimony. Jockey José Amy, 26 -like Feliciano an admitted fixer who struck a deal with prosecutors in exchange for testifying-claimed that eleven jockeys knew of the schemes, including three riders who were in the Preakness last weekend. The trio: Jacinto Vasquez, jockey of the Kentucky Derby-winning filly Genuine Risk; Angel Cordero Jr., a two-time Derby winner who rode Codex; and Jorge Velasquez, Colonel Moran's rider in last week's Preakness. Also implicated by Amy were Jean Cruguet, jockey for 1977 Triple Crown Winner Seattle Slew...
Genuine Risk was brilliantly ridden by her jockey, Jacinto Vasquez, who laid on the outside, far from traffic and the soft footing on the rail as the 13-horse field battled into the back stretch. With one-half mile to go, Vasquez made his move, gave the filly her head, and she swooped into the lead just as she reached the start of the home stretch. Running freely, fluidly, the big, lovely chestnut required just three taps of the whip to hold off Rumbo's late charge...
...residents fled San Jacinto when the flood-swollen river that runs through town burst its levees. Said Jane Hoff of the town officials' warning to leave: "They came through with a fire truck and a loudspeaker. I was scared to death." In Palm Springs, levees burst along the Palm Canyon Wash and 1,000 people were sent to evacuation centers. Governor Jerry Brown sent 100 National Guardsmen to prevent looting...
...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...