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...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...
...Hence a contest like "Scouting the Headlines," in which the boys scanned the San Francisco Examiner for news items about people who have obeyed or disobeyed the tenets of Scout law. In an evening spectacular, a rock band made up of Explorers blasted nature's quiet; a disc jockey was brought in as master of ceremonies. A helicopter bombarded the Scouts with 15,000 fortune cookies containing quiz questions. Possibly the most shocking deviation from tradition was a Magic Forest Electronic Nature Trail event. The old nature walk was replaced by a marked course, along which cassette tape recorders...
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...
...final point of interest in the Blue Grass was the performance, or lack of it, by a West Coast invader named Avatar. Jockey Willie Shoemaker says that the horse had his head down in the starting gate and got away poorly, which should explain his lack of punch...
...move in together. Still, coed living can undermine the partners' social lives. "If a guy and a girl are living together, even if there is nothing sexual between them, it's not so unusual for the guy to be watching TV in the living room in his Jockey shorts," says Joel Kaplan. "If the girl comes in with her boy friend, the boy friend is probably going to think there is something between the roommates." Occasionally there has been. But usually the partners date other people...