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...trainer had never handled a Derby horse before, and 3) his jockey had never ridden in the Derby. In a sport as unpredictable as horse racing, three strikes do not automatically mean an out. Trainer Henry Forrest and Jockey Don Brumfield were both native Kentuckians, and they were also old hands at Churchill Downs-whose extra-fast surface and extra-long stretch (1,2341 feet) make it one of the trickiest tracks...
...didn't either. He prayed all the way to the wire ("I turned my eyes to heaven, and I said, 'Help me now, Lord, 'cause I need you.'"). At the finish, Kauai King was one-half length ahead of Advocator and Blue Skyer. Panted Winning Jockey Brumfield: "I am the happiest hillbilly highboots you ever did see. This is one whole great blissful thing...
...debut recital at the local Baptist church, only six hardy souls turned out to hear her program of sacred songs. The fortunes of Mrs. Miller began to change when she began making recordings at her own expense, "just for the ducks of it." Her accompanist somehow induced a disk jockey to play one of her songs on his program. The reaction was such that Capitol Records signed her up and the Kansas songbird was at last...
...girl was coaxed into a sound studio by a student disk jockey on the pretext that he wanted to tape her voice for a commercial. Then, turning hunter, he loosened the doorknob, and from the control room sent a screaming high-frequency sweep that scrambled his victim's brains. Two points...
...Nose. With win bets only allowed, Graustark broke in front and flashed to a six-length lead. Everyone expected that to be it. Jockey Braulio Baeza eased up, and suddenly from dead last, there came Willie Shoemaker on Abe's Hope. The horses were neck and neck at the top of the stretch-then Abe's Hope drew out to a half-length lead. Baeza went to the whip, and Graustark came on hard. But not hard enough. Abe's Hope won by a nose...