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...herself and was cheered in middle-class Chelsea and Kensington. She conferred knighthoods on Colonel John Hunt, organizer of the British expedition that conquered Everest, and on New Zealander Edmond Hillary, who made it to the top. At week's end, the Queen watched England's greatest jockey, Gordon Richards, newly knighted, win his first Derby (see SPORT...
Gordon Richards is a tiny (4 ft. 11½ in., 112 Ibs.) and well-beloved Englishman of 49 who has ridden more winning horses (4,670) than any other jockey alive or dead. When Gordon Richards' name turned up last week on Queen Elizabeth's honors list, with word that he was to receive the first knighthood ever conferred on a jockey, millions of Britons beamed with sentiment. Five days later they made his horse Pinza a 5-1 co-favorite to win the one great race in which Jockey Richards had never had a winner...
...moves in easy stages. After each new encroachment on their rights, the Argentines accept the situation rather than force a showdown which, they fear, would cost them even more of their rights. Recently vandals, protected by Perón's police, burned Buenos Aires' famed old Jockey Club and destroyed priceless art treasures. Some of the club members demanded that the club close down its race track in protest. Cooler heads argued that this might prompt the government to nationalize horse racing. As a result, the board of directors adopted a "realistic" position, trooped dutifully off to assure...
...Pimlico's Preakness last week, Kentucky Derby Winner Dark Star shot into the lead. Dark Star had beaten Alfred Vanderbilt's Native Dancer in the Derby by following a simple script: get in front, out of trouble, and stay in front. But this time the Dancer, Jockey Guerin up, was not playing his part of the Derby script. Instead of getting banged early and boxed later, as he had in the Derby, Jockey Guerin kept the smooth-moving grey colt close on the pace, well out of trouble...
...twelve of the Dancer's 13 starts. Lost in the field at this stage, some 14 lengths behind, was a 17-1 shot named Jamie K., owned by the International Boxing Club's President Jim Norris. Jamie K. rated much of what backing he had simply because Jockey Eddie Arcaro was in the saddle...