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...broke the track record at Belmont to win the Peter Pan Handicap, captured the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes, bruised a foot so badly he was laid up for two months, then came back to win the Lawrence Realization and the two-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup, in which he upset odds-on four-year-old Hill Prince...
...Whitney's Counterpoint, the $50,000-added Jockey Club Gold Cup; at Belmont Park, N.Y. Counterpoint, winner of the mile-and-one-half Belmont Stakes, final event of the triple crown, nipped 1950's Horse of the Year, Hill Prince, by a head in the two-mile event. ¶ English Jockey Gordon Richards, his 200th race this year; at Lingfield, England. Richards, now 46, has ridden more winners than any other jockey (4,377), has hit the 200 mark each season for the last six years...
...Says Jockey McCoy: "The most popular tune I've ever introduced...
...most popular songs on the Rocky Mountain air for the past fortnight has been a jingly little piece that Disk Jockey Ronnie McCoy of Denver's KFEL calls Tout Contraire. It sounds something like a Slavic folk tune sung by a crooner with the hiccups. McCoy describes it as a "new foreign import." Listeners, trying to identify it, have variously guessed it to be French, German, Russian...
Before The Great Caruso appeared in a theater, 100,000 albums of the operatic numbers used in the picture had been sold. The sale was doubtless helped by Lanza's technique of plugging his records and films like a disc jockey from the concert stage-an unorthodox practice that pains some traditionalists even more than his habit of acknowledging applause with the overhead handclasp of a prizefighter. Yet no one quite foresaw what a hit the movie would be. Some of MGM's top brass took a gloomy view on the theory that the U.S. public would...