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Victoria, not keen on racing, always kept up the tradition of royal sponsorship of Ascot meets. She once asked the midget jockey Bell how much he weighed. Staunchly, little Bell replied: "My master says I'm never to tell my weight." (He weighed...
...Jockey Ted Atkinson knew Capot's peculiarities like a book: "If some other horse cuts out a dizzy pace, he is bull-headed enough to want to run him down. If you take a hold on him, trying to save something for the end, he gets ornery and won't run at all." At the start of last week's long Belmont Stakes, toughest test of U.S. racing's "Triple Crown," Atkinson hustled Capot into the lead and prayed that nobody would press...
...auto racer himself, Moore selects his drivers more carefully than a horse trainer selects a jockey. His pit technique is unbeatable. During Holland's one pit stop last week, two front tires were changed and 15 gallons of fuel blown into the tank from pressurized drums in 52 seconds. That was good enough, but it did not equal Moore's own record of 49 seconds for a major pit stop of a winning car, established eight years...
...since he was "fired"* for an ankle injury five months ago. According to present plans, he will run in Chicago this summer. Shuddering to think of how much poundage handicappers would pile on him, Ben Jones is looking ahead to such weight-for-age fall classics as Belmont's Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Pimlico Special...
...horses in front of him. Once he gets in front (which he has done 27 times in his 29 races), he seems to relax, looks at the scenery and even throws a glance at the stands. Such inattention sometimes calls for a solid crack on the rump, which his jockey may have to repeat...