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...Disc Jockey Ralph McCarthy was playing Willie Nelson tunes, reading the news and serving up public service announcements one Saturday last November to the folks in the redwood country around Eureka, Calif., when he bumped, voice first, into a social phenomenon. He had just finished reading a message about single mothers who needed help in trying to re-enter the job market. The program, one of many for single mothers in Northern California, was sponsored by a group called Displaced Homemakers. Impulsively, McCarthy told his listeners: "I'm a displaced homemaker too. I'm a single father...
Though no one doubted Summing's speed, the colt benefited most from an unusually slow pace during the early stages of the race. Jockeys, fearful of spending their horses too early over the grueling 1½ mile distance ambled through the first three-quarters of a mile in a somnolent 1 min. 141/5 sec. By that time, Jockey George Martens, 22, had Summing snugged into the rail, running easily on the lead under a tight rein. Martens, content to rock along, peered over his shoulder repeatedly, looking for a challenge from Pleasant Colony. Finally, as the horses headed into...
Throughout, Galbraith is as laconic as an Ontario plow jockey. He offers little about his private life; his wit is a bit too mechanical, as are mordant observations like "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." Yet Galbraith's air of detachment is satisfying. It enables him to place himself in recent history without seeming more or less important than he was. He is one of the few contemporary memoirists who have held the line on inflation...
...Jockey Philip Nore, the narrator and protagonist of Reflex, is the most multi-faceted Franciscan hero to date. Though he is passionately devoted to his way of life, the spills and the thrills, he has become increasingly disillusioned with the cheating and corruption he perceives at all levels of the racing world. Nore is a lonely man, with a badly shriveled ego that even his occasional racetrack triumphs cannot plump out. He appears to have no real sense of his own identity...
...persuades him to search for a long-lost half sister. There is also the matter of a well-known racecourse photographer who is killed in a car accident. Nore becomes involved in the violent aftermath of his death. From scraps of film left by the track photographer, the shutterbug-jockey suspects that the dead man had been blackmailing some of the racing world's leading figures. Between falls on the track and a savage attack by two hit men, Nore suffers even more than the normal ration of violence doled out to Dick Francis' heroes...