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Because Gordon Richards did such things as ride twelve winners in twelve races, British bookies once balked at taking bets on his mounts. At 41, Jockey Richards was still up and at 'em last week, and his wrists and knees were still persuasive enough to boot home the winner in Newmarket's Icklingham Stakes. It was his 3,000th win in 25 seasons. (Britain's Sam Heapy holds the world's record, 3,620 wins; Johnny Longden leads all U.S. jockeys with...
...held out a three-foot-long sweet potato, and Harry Truman gravely inspected it. He laughed at the brash jokes of a midget master of ceremonies, watched a team of husky girl dancers in pink scanties, closely followed three horse races, presented a cup to the winning jockey of "The President Truman Derby...
...priority to fly to England with his aide-de-camp for "health reasons." Scores of long-service British officers, waiting wearily for passage, on the crowded homeward bound planes, knew that the Gaekwar was going to England to race his stable, that his "aide-de-camp" was his champion jockey...
Died. Steve Donoghue, 60, tiny, socially sought-after British jockey who rode six Derby winners in his 30-year career, won the Queen Alexandra Stakes at Ascot six times in succession; of a heart attack; in London. He once declined the post of royal jockey to the late King George V with a frank explanation: the royal string was not quite up to his standard...
...past year her stories have been entertaining Bostonians, so well that at times they drew as many as 300 responses, a considerable number of them from grownups. Sample story ingredients: a milk bottle, a violin, and a rake; a jockey, some snow, and a duck. Next week: an egg, a towel, and a light-all about an egg that almost cracks under the strain of modern living...