Word: jockey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the field took the turn in the Youthful Stakes, run at Jamaica fortnight ago, Psychic Bid, of Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brookmeade Stable, went wide. Swart little Jockey Dominick Bellizzi tugged desperately at his 2-year-old's left rein. The bit slipped through Psychic Bid's angry mouth. Jockey Bellizzi went flying from his perch, hurtled into the dust. Hoofs struck and crushed his crumpled body and when the field thundered off Jockey Bellizzi lay in his dirty royal-blue-&-white silks, unconscious...
...Sloane, Brookmeade's Trainer Smith and Jockey Garner were out for at least two more prizes for the stable this spring. Both the Belmont Stakes ($60,000 added) and the American Derby ($25,000 added) at Chicago will be run June 9. High Quest is entered in the Belmont Stakes, Cavalcade in the American Derby. Last week Trainer Smith was in a dither, did not see how he "could be in two places at once," thought he would stay with High Quest who, although he will not admit it, is his favorite of Brookmeade's flashy pair...
...Another freak racing accident occurred on the second day of racing at Belmont. Samuel Riddle's All Aflame was leading in the Lark Purse, Jockey Charlie Kurtsinger up, when suddenly the colt shied at the crowd's cheers, bolted to the inside rail, crossed legs, tripped, fell. Jockey Don Meade and Queen's Flag tumbled over the fallen horse and rider. All Aflame broke his shoulder and was killed. Jockeys Kurtsinger & Meade miraculously escaped injury...
...early afternoon, including the Pacific Coast hope, Riskulus. leaving 13 limber-legged thoroughbreds to spring from the barrier as the crowd uttered one vast shrill: "They're off!" Mata Hari, Charles T. Fisher's filly, broke fast and led to the first turn, Sgt. Byrne closing swiftly. Jockey Don Meade went to the outside with Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's filly Bazaar, hot after the leaders. Little old Jockey Mack Garner, in the ruck with Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's big brown colt Cavalcade, swung to the rail to get out and ahead of the press...
...about streamlining and wind-resistance, he experimented with little hoods to be strapped on his horses' heads. More disastrous was his notion, abetted by an Akron (Ohio) oculist, that horses with defective vision would run better if equipped with glasses. Result was a large bill and one disabled jockey, the rider of the first terrified mount in spectacles. But to Colonel Bradley goes credit for introducing the fibre skullcap, first worn by his jockeys, now used by all to prevent serious head injuries in falls...