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Stir Up was the horse to beat, and 7-to-1 Pensive did it. Jockey Conn McCreary, a stocky-chested mite (99 lb. on a 4 ft. 8 in. frame) told how: "I held him back until we hit the stretch, then turned him loose. That's all there...
...beaten by a 30-to-1 outsider. But the veteran team of Trainer Ben Jones and Owner Warren Wright, who won the Kentucky Derby with Whirlaway in 1941, finally decided to race their chestnut colt. The decision was worth $65,675 to Wright ($6,600 of it to the jockey) and paid Pensive's backers $16.20, $7.20 and $4.60. Despite wartime travel restrictions and an ODT decree that only local residents could attend, some 65,000 got to Churchill Downs in time to wager $655,372-the heaviest Derby betting since...
...competition, frogs jump from the center of a ring. A "jump" is actually three successive .leaps. Official length of the jump is the distance from the center of the ring to the final resting place. A jumping frog's handler (known as a "jockey") is forbidden to touch him after the first leap. Just before the first, the jockey is allowed to give him just one brisk flick, or tickle...
Jumping frogs come from all over. Last week's Manhattan competitors came from frog farms in Vermont and New Jersey. The New Jersey contribution was by Warner Bros., whose interest in the affair was tainted with professionalism (see p. 56). The winners' jockeys, all boys, achieved their victories in various ways. Baby's jockey gave him a fight talk; Superman's said a last-minute prayer; the nameless leaper's rested on his luck. Flash, the world-champion jumper (15 ft. 10 in. in 1941), gave a demonstration, but the best that...
...Colonel's challenger, Clinton McKinnon, 37 is little bigger than an outsize jockey. It has taken him only about three years to gallop an idea, and little else, into his San Diego daily. The idea: local news sheets handed free to Los Angeles County's swarming war workers (TIME, Nov. 2, ). Last August McKinnon sold these throwaways - the San Fernando Valley Times, Los Angeles Aircralt Times, Long Beach Shipyard Times (they had grossed $700,000 in ads in 1942) 1942)-and 1942)-and moved to San Diego where he set up the triweekly Progress-Progress-Journal...