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Trainer Smith to Jockey Guerin [TIME, May 12]: "Get on that Duffy...
...told back in 1926 before he entered radio, as having happened to an Uncle "Gee Bee," a radio uncle on the now defunct New York station WGBS. Incidentally . . . Uncle Don started a new half-hour series on WOR March 1 in the new role of "Children's Disc Jockey...
Trainer Tom Smith thought so too. Last week, Silent Tom had only two words to say about Jet Pilot's chances: "We'll win." To Jockey Eric Guerin his instructions were: "Get on that Duffy [get the lead] and nurse him home...
...Jockey Guerin did just that. Out in front from the start, Jet Pilot was tiring as he entered the stretch. Jockey Guerin resisted an urge to sting Jet Pilot's chestnut rump with the whip-he remembered that Jet Pilot didn't take kindly to whipping (and Owner Arden disapproves too). The result was the closest Derby finish in eleven years. From far behind, the 2-to-1 favorite, Phalanx, Eddie Arcaro up, came up strong and was only a head behind Jet Pilot at the end. Another head back was Faultless. California's big hope...
Hewitt is 6 feet 5 inches tall, or 21 hands, and usually leaves the jockey chores to Eddie Arcaro, who is somewhat smaller, but he is quite familiar with the sport of kings. In one outing at Suffolk Downs Hewitt picked 15 horses in the money out of 16 races...