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...phrase is, "Go out on the (Bill) Daly"-after Father Bill Daly, whose instructions (to the jockey) usually were, "Go to the front and don't look back...
...something new been added to race-track parlance? . . . Twenty years ago every trainer on the continent used "Bill Daly." It was supposed to stem from a "bullring" jockey whose technique was to "get the hell away and get the hell home...
...Readers Boone and Gray get off their old grey mares. "On the Bill Daly" is older, better known and more widely used; "on the Duffy" means exactly the same thing. Nevertheless, TIME erred in quoting the phrase from a news story; Trainer Smith's actual instructions to Jockey Guerin were more practical than picturesque: "Go right to the front-try to get a breakaway at the gate, and nurse him all the way along...
When Gordon Richards broke his first big record, at England's Liverpool track 14 years ago, the news was considered important enough to be telephoned to Buckingham Palace. A mite of a man, son of a Shropshire coal miner, Jockey Richards, by riding 247 winning thoroughbreds in one season, had outdone Fred Archer's 1885 British record.* Richards' own comment hardly seemed up to the occasion. Said he: "It's been a very trying time for me and I'm very glad it's over...
Year after year, Gordon Richards was a big winner, earning up to $120,000 a season. He got extra speed out of a horse by breaking fast from the post and being a master horse-handler all the way to the finish line. Unlike U.S. jockeys, who perch crablike on a horse's withers. Richards sits his horse with longer stirrups. When he uses the whip, which is seldom, he lays it on the horse near the shoulder, as English riders do. Last week, at 43, he won his 3,261st race, and that made him officially the world...