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California's hope was husky On Trust, who ran away from his opposition in March's $100,000 Santa Anita Derby. His veteran jockey, Johnny Longden, thought he knew a Derby horse when he rode one, and he liked On Trust's chances. Willie Molter, the nation's leading trainer last year, said that On Trust was the most knowing race horse he had ever worked with. On the figures, as the one Derby candidate who had run and won a mile and a quarter test, Molter's colt was the horse to beat...
...Trust, 6-1). At that price, he was definitely a horse to beat. Phalanx, lagging less than usual, had just copped one division of Jamaica's $40,000 Wood Memorial. He ran the mile and a sixteenth, apparently under wraps, in 1:43 4/5. His jockey, long-nosed Eddie Arcaro, is the best stakes rider in the business and he is just as intent as Calumet's Ben Jones on winning his fourth Derby...
...shot from Ireland, led most of the way, as he had last year until he fell at treacherous Becher's Brook. At the last few jumps, up moved Caughoo, 100-to-1 (202½-to-1 on the tote), an Irish eight-year-old with a jockey who had never ridden the Aintree course before. Caughoo (who cost Dublin Jeweler J. J. McDowell $200 as an unbroken juvenile) finished 20 lengths out front. The fog was so thick that most of the 300,000 in the crowd had to read about the race in the papers...
Muffled Thunder. Today La Prensa is not the paper it used to be. In the face of Peron, it has muffled its thunder. Its voice has become more & more the voice of the oldtime Jockey Club oligarchy, an echo of the dead past in the very much alive present...
This disc jockey, Kurt Webster of radio station WBT, has done a job other jockeys have dreamed of for years-not only reviving a tune but an entire orchestra. . . . Webster plugged Heartaches when nobody, even Weems, had thought of the record in ten years. Its revival to the point of the Decca re-issue was an absolutely single-handed job. Even the Charlotte press, not given to plugging radio, compares your story to reporting discovery of America by "local sailor...