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After the Civil War, New Orleans' favorite track, Metairie, was turned into a cemetery, and the Fair Grounds, home of the Louisiana Jockey Club, became the centre of U. S. winter racing. Competition from California or Florida was as yet unheard of, and the track prospered. Then in 1908 the State Legislature banned Louisiana racing...
...infield where Black Gold (1924 Kentucky Derby winner) is buried, they took title to the track. The price was $177,000 down and a $348,000 mortgage - to be paid off by selling stock to New Orleanians. Said Syndicate Head Sylvester Welch Labrot Jr., president of the new Louisiana Jockey Club: "[From now on the] Fair Grounds will operate as a civic enterprise. It is to be New Orleans' track. . . . We shall have honest racing...
...year-olds have been in the headlines as often as Jockey Earl Dew. Crowned U. S. riding champion of 1940, after nosing out another obscure 19-year-old named Walter Taylor on the very last day of the year, baby-faced Earl Dew was hailed as one of the most promising jockeys of his generation...
...sixth race, a sudden hush fell on the stands. Rounding the turn, Bosca, the favorite, tripped. Two other horses piled on her. Bosca lay on the track dead, her neck broken. Her jockey was rushed away in an ambulance. It was Earl Dew. Before he could get his applause and his gold watch, Hero Earl Dew died of a fractured skull...
...Christmas Day, with Taylor only three wins behind, both kids were as "touchy as gamecocks. In one race in which they were both riding, Dew, coming up on the outside, crowded Taylor. Taylor gave Dew the whip. Both finished out of the money. They walked back to the jockey room side by side; the moment they reached the doorway, they went at one another in an old-fashioned goto. "Just a flare-up of competitive spirit," explained Chief Steward Tom Thorp, fining each boy $50 instead of setting them down for the rest of the year...