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...Jockey Ray York booted home this winner of the 80th Kentucky Derby...
...always, belonged to the cockney, the costermonger and the gypsy, swarming over the infield. Red-faced north-country farmers and pale London clerks elbowed up to canvas stalls to buy jellied eels and winkles. Touts sidled up to them, peddling inside dope. Said one oldster dressed like a jockey: "Blimey, I wish my kids were 'ere. 'Cos if they were, I could put my 'and on their 'eads and swear that this information of mine is the real goods. Now look, ladies and gents, I want you to come back after the race just...
...careful fifth. Almost out of sight behind the gorse at the far turn, the field thundered into the dangerous, downhill arc of Tattenham Corner. Rowston Manor faded. Landau quit. And then, in the stretch, Never Say Die made his move. Booted by his 18-year-old jockey, Lester Piggot, he passed the wire a healthy two lengths ahead of another 33-to-1 shot, Arabian Night. The youngest jockey to ride a winner in Derby history had ridden the first American-bred winner since Iroquois...
...infield, the old tipster saw few 'appy, smiling faces, but bravely started his pitch for the next race: "Now, ladies and gents, this 'orse . . ." The Queen graciously congratulated the winning jockey, her horse went back for further treatment by its psychiatrist...
...more than 40 feet in three furlongs. To run the course's ups & downs, a horse must be able to accelerate, slow down, accelerate on demand. Next week, Owner Vanderbilt and Trainer Winfrey plan to fly to Britain to case Ascot for themselves. One of the toughest problems: should Jockey Guerin, who has never ridden the kind of race required by English tracks, ride the Big Grey? It would all be difficult?and challenging...