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...Marsalis and Helen Richey. For ten days-while an Armenian archbishop was being murdered, a train collision was killing 200 persons in France, a blizzard was sweeping the East, George Dunlap was winning his eighth midwinter golf tournament, a Rumanian premier was being assassinated, the Metropolitan Opera was opening, Jockey Jack Westrope was riding his 300th winner-they had been flying around in circles to set a new women's endurance record of 237 hr. 42 min., 41 hr. better than the old mark, and to advertise Outdoor Girl cosmetics...
...seven starters sloshed through Texas mud to the barrier for the third race at Epsom Downs one day last week, every eye of the shivering crowd was on Out Bound and the peanut-sized figure astride him. Jockey Jack Westrope, a 16-year-old apprentice, had already ridden 299 winners in 1933. A five-day suspension for rough-riding had just expired. Now he was out to win his 300th race before the year end-a record only two other jockeys in U. S. and English racing history had made, the last in 1908. In the first two races...
Easily the U. S. jockey-of-the-year is baby-faced Jack Westrope, who looks two years younger than the 16 he claims to be. Last month he shattered the English record of 246 winners in a season. He was still a long way from the world's record of 388 winners, ridden in 1906 by U. S. Jockey Walter Miller. But then no one. had broken the 300 mark since Vincent Powers 25 years...
...Epsom Downs, the new track near Houston, Tex., last week little Jack Westrope booted in winners 297, 298, 299. Then he mounted a chestnut filly named Miss Tulsa. Another horse named Fortunate Youth forced her wide at the turn, forged ahead. Jockey Westrope lifted Miss Tulsa into the lead again, but she was spent, finished fourth. Next day the Epsom Downs stewards suspended Westrope for five days for rough riding. That left him three racing days in which to score his 300th victory...
Died. James Todhunter ("Tod"') Sloan, 59, famed oldtime jockey (TIME, Dec. 11); of cirrhosis of the liver; in a Los Angeles hospital...