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...turf, he behaved like a speed horse, so after four more unsuccessful races on the grass, the trainer decided to try him on dirt. Bingo. Cigar closed out the '94 season with two victories. But even then Mott wasn't aware of what he had. When Cigar and his jockey, Jerry Bailey, won the first of their 10 races together in '95, Mott and his family were vacationing in Costa Rica...
Then came victories in the Donn Handicap and the Gulfstream Park Handicap. At the Oaklawn Handicap in Arkansas last April, Cigar was accidentally whipped in the face by the jockey aboard another horse; most horses would have backed up after such a blow, but Cigar just got mad and blew away a stellar field. During the Hollywood Gold Cup in California last July, Cigar was hit in the head by a huge clod of dirt, and Bailey needed all his strength to hold back the horse before letting him go on to an easy victory. Cigar's folk-hero status...
...measure of this impatience that Steve Forbes, as unlikely a jockey as we are ever likely to encounter this side of Churchill Downs, is trying to ride that discontent to the head of the G.O.P. presidential race. Whether he ever intended, or expected, to get as far as he has is uncertain. Even less clear is whether he has the staff, the steadiness and steel to switch from quirky joyrider to formidable contender...
...Disc-jockey, T.V. commentator, radio talk show host and, of course, Pulitzer Prize winning author Studs Terkel amused and amazed an audience of more than 200 at the ARCO Forum last night...
DIED. ALISON STEELE, 58, disc jockey; of cancer; in New York City. "Come fly with me" was Steele's classic invitation, first sighed in the '60s in a voice marinated in smoke and sophistication--a suggestion so appealing to New York insomniacs that the "Nightbird" became one of the first women in the country to work as a rock 'n' roll deejay. She was also the first female recipient of Billboard's "FM Personality of the Year" and an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...