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...leaf on the track, set himself like a steeplechaser approaching a hedge, and jumped. Then he settled down to business. He looped the field on the clubhouse turn, and the applause had already started when he swept around the final turn into the stretch, leading by three lengths. Jockey Walter Blum gave him a quick flick with the whip ("I don't pull up no horses when we're running for 50 big ones," he explained later) and found himself holding on for dear life. Gun Bow's margin at the wire: a widening ten lengths. Sighed...
...Negro groom stroked the colt's nose, trying to cairn him down while Trainer Eddie Neloy tightened the saddle girth. Looking on, a girl with yellow hair wanted to know why the horse was carrying 132 Ibs., like the program said, when everybody knows that a jockey only weighs 110 or so. "Lead weights," somebody said. "They stuff the saddle full of lead weights." Somebody else laughed. "This horse, they probably use gold bars instead...
Marnie. When Marnie (Tippi Hedren) confronts a bouquet of crimson gladioli, the screen goes red. When she spills red ink, she flees. Red coats at a hunt, red dots on a jockey's colors panic her. Why is she so terrified of the color red? Too much like blood, maybe...
...Ussery has learned to use tactics as well as tack. No jockey is shrewder at rating a short-winded speed horse on the lead; few are more accomplished at sitting chilly on a stretch runner, picking the instant to make a move. And when it comes to a photo finish, he knows every trick in the book: flicking a horse gently under the chin to get its head up at the wire, dropping the reins to let the horse's neck stretch out. "I've matured," he says. "With my attitude real sour like it was before...
TOLEDO. Spanish Chef Francisco Gon zalez from Madrid's Jockey Club turns out fine food (sea bass in parchment, tournedos, partridges with grapes of Almeria). Like the rest of the Spanish pavilion, the decor is elegant, and there is a small armada of trim, bolero-jacketed waiters. $5-$25. The pavilion's No. 2 restaurant, the Granada, serves an all-Spanish menu that features cold gazpacho soup, paella, sangria (red wine with soda) at slightly lower prices than the Toledo...