Word: jockey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official judgment angered several newspaper men who thought that Bracadale, the Rancocas entry, ridden by the famed Earl Sande, earned fourth place. Bracadale led the way for most of the mile and a quarter. At the turn before the home stretch he showed signs of weakening. Sande, former jockey of the great Zev, used all his wiles to urge Bracadale...
...Jockeys. Black Gold was ridden by J.D. Mooney, New Orleans boy. Mooney, hitherto little known, rode a perfect race. He got his mount out of a bad "pocket" of horses at the first turn, he took him from sixth place to third on the five furlong* back stretch, and he brought him in a winner in the last quarter of a mile. Sande, who rode Zev to a victory over the English horse Papyrus last October, kept Bracadale at a fast pace all the way around the track. He was always in the lead for the first mile...
Prizes. This year marked the 50th (Golden Jubilee) anniversary of Kentucky Derby. The purse was $52,775. Second was $6,000; third, $3,000; fourth, $1,000. In addition, a gold cup was given to the owner of the winner and to the winning jockey went the customary pair of gold spurs. Black Gold's trainer received a gold stop watch. The weight carried by the horses was 126 pounds. The event was open only to three-year-olds. Glide, the only fill entered for the race was withdrawn the night before. There were 19 colts competing. Black Gold paid...
...Crowd. Estimated at 80,000, the biggest crowd ever to attend a U. S. race-meeting filled the stands and recently enlarged grounds of the Kentucky Jockey Club at Churchill Downs, near Louisville. A pleasing spectacle was made by the gay plumage of both sexes. The night before...
Steve Donoghue, famed English jockey who rode Papyrus against Zev (TIME, Oct. 22): "Despatches from India stated that I 'have achieved only moderate success in recent races' in that country. 'He has not won any one of the really important events...