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...Juicing up ABC radio, now that the big TV overhaul is under way. In January Disk Jockey Martin Block will move his spectacularly successful Make Believe Ballroom to the network after 18 years at Manhattan's WNEW...
...Jockey Willie Shoemaker is usually a highly relaxed performer; he hunches up over his mount's neck and almost seems to let matters take their course. But, riding a colt named The Hoop last week, Willie was in a notable hurry. At the break from the barrier he got his horse off to a quick lead; when two other horses threatened to overtake him, Willie quickly went to the whip, drove hard all the way to the finish. The Hoop won by a neck, and the crowd at California's Golden Gate Fields sent up a roar...
...Shoemaker's secret of success is keeping busy (a phenomenal 1,364 mounts so far this year). At 22, he has been riding for only 4½ years, and such veterans as Eddie Arcaro and Ted Atkinson are more in demand for the big stakes. But no ordinary jockey could keep as winningly busy as Willie does, and his merits are fully appreciated by his peers. Arcaro says flatly that Willie already ranks with "the greatest in the country." Sharp-eyed old Earl Sande also ranks Willie with the best, and adds that if Arcaro himself "has anything...
Such skills have brought him due reward. In the 4½ years since he rode his first winner, Texas-born Willie, who now prefers California, has booted home 1,571 winners, won more than $5,000,000 in purses. At a jockey's standard 10%, he can well afford his Cadillac, his de luxe trailer, where his wife does the housekeeping when Willie is on the road, and his small apartment in Arcadia. Indeed, he owns the apartment house...
...York's Jamaica race track, Veteran Jockey Earl Sande, 54, making a comeback after 21 years (TIME, Oct. 12), had his first winner in ten rides, a come-from-behind finish on a longshot (13-1) named Miss Weesie. In the winner's circle, with the cheers of the crowd ringing in his ears. Oldster Sande unabashedly let the tears run down his cheeks...