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...disc jockey's turntable began to look like radio's wheel of fortune and by last week, two networks had bought a share of the earnings...
...jockeys who have built their self-styled "spindustry" out of thin air mildly resent the big-names brigade, but have few financial beefs. Los Angeles' Al Jarvis (KLAC), the favorite in Southern California, takes in $190,000; Arthur Godfrey (Manhattan's WCBS and Washington's WTOP) makes $150,000. Ray Perkins (Denver's KFEL), top jockey in the Rocky Mountain region, isn't bragging about what he makes, but he likes Colorado. Jockey Jack Eigen has the newest gimmick: a wee-hours disc show in the lounge of Manhattan's glossy Copacabana nightclub...
Over the Downs. With the dew still wet on the grass. Richards rolled through the English countryside last week in his little Morris runabout (he left his Rolls Royce and his chauffeur at home). Usually, with his 112-lb. body wrapped in Bond Street tweeds, wealthy Jockey Richards looks like a well-dressed ex-fullback, seen through the wrong end of a telescope. Last week he went out in flannel shirt and whipcord breeches. The runabout pulled up before a rambling old brick stable. There Richards mounted a delicately built, undersized brown colt named Tudor Minstrel...
...England's top jockey can't win with England's most talked-about horse over the uphill and downhill course of mile-and-a-half-long Epsom Downs next week, he will have to blame himself: he has already announced that he considers Tudor Minstrel perhaps the greatest horse he has ever ridden. If he loses, he can still relax on his 300-acre Wiltshire farm, race pigeons, fly airplanes-and ride a winner a day or so later. If that's the way it must be, relaxed, competent Jockey Richards can take it, without...
...World record: U.S. Jockey Walter Miller's 388 wins...