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...gate No. 1 was Genuine Risk, the filly who broke a 65-year tradition to outrun the colts in the Kentucky Derby this year. In gate No. 2 was Codex, the California colt who beat Genuine Risk in the Preakness despite a controversial ride by his jockey that resulted in a foul claim and an almost unheard-of appeal for state authorities to overturn the results of a Triple Crown classic. Given the circumstances, Cassidy might have bypassed the traditional "And they're off!" in favor of a salutation more suitable to the ill will of a horse race...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Anita Bryant, 40, singer and purveyor of orange juice, whose secular concert career has suffered in recent years because of her strident campaigns against gay rights; and Bob Green, former disc jockey and until now her manager; after 20 years of marriage, four children; in Miami Beach. Bryant claimed that Green had "violated my very conscience," by cooperating with "certain hired staff members" who she said were trading on her reputation for their personal gain...
...more sordid picture of the blandishments of Saratoga emerged in a Brooklyn courtroom last week. Testifying in the race-fixing trial of onetime Jockey Con Errico, 58, another ex-jock, Ben Feliciano, described a bribe attempt at Saratoga in the summer of 1974. Feliciano was riding in several races that day. He had gone to the toilet in the jockeys' dressing room when an unknown man walked into an adjoining stall. The man shoved an envelope containing a wad of bills across the tiles, told Feliciano that the money was his if he would simply "hold" -rein...
...prosecutions for race fixing in five states. Twenty-two men have been convicted in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Michigan. But the New York case is by far the most serious, for some of the nation's finest and most famous riders have been named in court testimony. Jockey José Amy, 26 -like Feliciano an admitted fixer who struck a deal with prosecutors in exchange for testifying-claimed that eleven jockeys knew of the schemes, including three riders who were in the Preakness last weekend. The trio: Jacinto Vasquez, jockey of the Kentucky Derby-winning filly Genuine Risk...
...colts of her class over the same distances on the same tracks. But Ruffian was never entered in a race against the boys until the fateful one in which she fractured her foreleg and had to be destroyed. A haunting irony: Vasquez, Genuine Risk's jockey, was riding Ruffian in that tragic race. He vaulted from her back and tried to cradle her head in his arms as she staggered on her shattered...