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Citation, the wonder horse, was rarin' to go, but his rider wasn't. Both were getting daily diathermy treatments; the horse for an old hip injury and Jockey Eddie Arcaro for a recent and painful dislocated shoulder. Muttered Eddie: "I can't hit a horse or anything." But rather than let another jockey ride Citation in last week's $25,000 Sysonby Mile at Belmont, Arcaro got a shot of novocaine in his lame shoulder and climbed aboard. If worst came to worst, he decided he could whip with his left hand...
Once upon a time, so the story of goes, a susceptible Eliot House Junior discovered a piece of silk in his meat leaf. "It's bad enough," he complained, "to feed us horse meet, but when they have to grind up the jockey as well...
...Pinkerton men waited until Jockey Eddie Arcaro had ridden C. V. Whitney's filly, First Flight, down the six-furlong straightaway in a near-record 1:08 3/5. Then one of the agents stepped up to Baldy. "How would you like to talk to Mr. O'Grady at the Pinkerton Agency?" Blurted Baldy in hurt indignation: "Pinkerton? O'Grady? What am I? A bookmaker?" But he was not indignant enough to want to meet O'Grady-he vanished through the nearest gate...
...help The Jockey Club keep horse racing "clean," Pinkerton men have also investigated 1,650 owners and trainers, photographed or fingerprinted 43,000 grooms, exercise boys and jockeys, and photographed 31,000 thoroughbreds. Uniformed policemen patrol the stable area against pyromaniacs, horse-dopers and gamblers 24 hours...
Only one American-bred horse was competing in the historic race, first run in 1776: Black Tarquin,* owned by the chairman of New York's Jockey Club, William Woodward. In the Derby, Black Tarquin had finished eighth, and most bettors figured that he lacked staying powers for the mile-and-three-quarters St. Leger. The American colt, ridden by Australian Jockey Edgar Britt, settled down well to the rear, made no move until the stretch. Then, with only two furlongs to go, he put on a brilliant burst of speed to win from Alycidon, an outsider, by a length...