Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kids get most of their notions about rock 'n' roll from the radio. One rock radio station offers coloring books as a tie-in promotion for sponsors. Cousin Brucie ("I really believe everyone's my cousin") Morrow, 31, top rock jockey for Manhattan's WABC, has formed a "Cousin Brucie's Pillow Talk Club" for the station's 20,000 sub-teen listeners who go beddie-bye with their transistor radios. "They're my little itty-bitty ones," drools Brucie. "Kids used to go to bed with teddy bears," he says. "Now they...
...second, doctors insisted that he stay in bed for 17 hours. Neither was likely to shake the almond-eyed Panamanian who is known in the trade as "El Chino" and "Stoneface," and who last year won more stake races (24) and more money ($2,582,702) than any other jockey...
...Newsreels. The stepson of a former jockey turned trainer, Baeza was 14 when he rode in his first race at Panama's Juan Franco track. He finished dead last, and after the race the stewards suspended him for being "inept." Vowing "Some day I win the Kentucky Derby" Braulio took to haunting movie houses that showed newsreels of U.S. races ("Eddie Arcaro always won. He was a beautiful hand rider"), worked hard to earn his spurs in the hell-for-leather scrambles that are typical of racing in Panama. Between 1956 and 1960 he won 912 races-about...
...falling-out with Hooper, settled it by buying back his contract for $100,000 in cash. He soon got half of that back from one horse alone: Ogden Phipps's Buckpasser, who last year won $568,096, more money than any other two-year-old in history. Jockey Baeza...
...barring any more accidents. Baeza has the mount on John Galbreath's unbeaten Graustark, who might become the first Triple Crown winner in 17 years. Baeza is practicing for the Derby, Preakness and Belmont by winning just about everything else in sight. Last month he became the first jockey ever to win five races in one day at Hialeah. Twice, he has won four in a day; six times, he has won three. Last week, with ten days still left of Hialeah's 40-day meeting, Baeza had already won 47 races-twice as many as his closest...