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...advertisement showed Mr. Burton in jockey costume holding a saddle over his right arm. He said that through a freak of photography, he had been humiliated and held up to ridicule...
...Burton is a gentleman jockey, he has unusually tender feelings, to be forced to neglect his work due merely to ribald jibes. And if he is a gentleman he should feel a good deal more humiliated at having spend over two years grubbing for some money in reparation for something that was nobody's fault but his own, and that he had no business getting in for in the first place...
...stranger who demanded $2,500 and seven old shirts in return for his "unbeatable" system of betting on the races, threatened Turfman Vanderbilt with bad luck unless he complied by May 30. Turfman Vanderbilt ignored the letter. On May 30, Cherry Orchard fell at the start, breaking his jockey's collarbone. Airilame was defeated for the first time, and all three Vanderbilt entries in a third race inexplicably failed to live up to expectations. At Saratoga, an epidemic of coughing ruined the chances of the promising Vanderbilt string of two-year-olds. Then Good Harvest ran a piece...
Bunched at the first turn, the field strung out in the back stretch with Special Agent in front at the half mile, Sangreal at the three-quarter. Sangreal was still ahead coming into the stretch when Jockey Peters, moving up on Goldeneye, made his bid. For a split second, it looked like a camera finish. Then Sangreal weakened and Goldeneye drew away-to a six-length lead at the wire, with Sangreal second, Ariel Cross third...
Properly speaking, the 1936 racing season ends Jan. 1, when all U. S. racehorses, by Jockey Club rule, become a year older. Unofficially, the start of the Santa Anita meeting marked the start of the 1937 season. With no super-horse to attract special attention, the 1936 season went on record as horse racing's most prosperous year. In 15 states that permit pari-mutuel betting, $1,000,000,000 changed hands. Leading jockey of the year was Basil James, with 239 winners through last week. Leading trainer was the onetime pigeon fancier, Hirsch Jacobs (TIME, Oct. 26), with...