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...Unable to win a stakes race this year, Jack Price's plucky, long-tailed Carry Back staged a stirring comeback in the $111,900 Metropolitan Handicap at New York's Aqueduct race track. Skillfully ridden by Jockey Johnny Rotz, the horse that won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness last year, but broke down in the Belmont Stakes and now rated only 9-to-2 odds, dawdled twelve lengths behind the leaders through the backstretch, turned it on at the close to win by a gallant 2½ lengths. A well-beaten sixth: Mrs. Richard...
...invited," read the program, "to greet and praise De Koven in the Ladies' Lounge. Please refrain from criticizing the Maestro, for it never does any good and only gives De Koven the colic." At Manhattan's Town Hall last week, that injunction served to introduce Classical Disk Jockey Seymour De Koven, an evangelist of the baroque, a man dedicated to the proposition that scarcely any music worth listening to was written after 1828, the year Schubert died. After him, practically no composers were able to write decent "barococo" music, and the public had to settle for "nobodies like...
...municipally owned and supported station). De Koven has resolutely banished all commercial sponsors, buys all the records he uses. He claims-and so far no one has felt the urge to challenge him -that he plays more baroque and rococo music (hence his coinage-"barococo") than any other disk jockey in the world...
Hard-eyed little Bill Hartack, 30, has twice won the Kentucky Derby, four times been acclaimed racing's leading jockey. Working up to this year's Derby, Hartack could count himself well pleased -or so it seemed. His mount was Mrs. Moody Jolley's Ridan, a Kentucky-bred speedster who had won ten of his 13 starts and once equaled the world record for five furlongs in a casual, early-morning breeze...
...figured Ridan at 2 to 1. Breaking perfectly, the horses pounded around the fading arc of the clubhouse turn, fought for position on the rail. As they swept into the back stretch, Hartack might have permitted himself a grim smile. Up ahead, Ridan refused to obey the commands of Jockey Manuel Ycaza and spurted into a three-length lead. Ycaza stood bolt upright in the stirrups, desperately trying to hold the stubborn colt back. It was a losing fight...