Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Jockey Eddie Arcaro reports the Gold Cup Race at Ascot...
...post time, the odds against Quadrangle were 13 to 2. Jockey Manuel Ycaza thought that was pretty funny. "This is a free-running colt," he said. "He can beat any horse in the country." As if to prove it, he urged Quadrangle into the lead at the start, then eased up. Other horses pounded past: California's Hill Rise (2 to 1) and long-shot Orientalist (42 to 1) dueled for the lead; Quadrangle slipped back to fourth, and Northern Dancer was running fifth. Suddenly, Orientalist began to bear out from the rail. "I saw that big hole," said...
Carnations for Two. On the outside, aboard Northern Dancer, Jockey Bill Hartack made his move, closed to within a neck. "I leaned over and talked in the horse's ear," said Ycaza. "I kept saying, 'Let's get the Belmont. Let's get the Belmont.' Then I hit him twice." Quadrangle pulled away like an Atlas leaving the pad. At the wire, he was two lengths ahead of Roman Brother, six ahead of Northern Dancer. Jockey Ycaza plucked two white carnations from the wreath around Quadrangle's neck. "One for my wife," he explained...
...plays to an S.R.O. audience. Admission is free, the performance scheduled for 11:30 p.m. But sports fans must jockey for position, and the crowds gather early every night of the week but Sunday. By 11, they are a good thousand strong, amiable at first, ruly and obedient. Some nibble candy bars left over from the movies, others nip from flasks. Excitement mounts. So do six policemen, onto snorting steeds. Sixteen more police get the barriers set up along 46th Street and part way across the Broadway exit. The throng fidgets: gloves drop, eyeglasses break, drunks mutter, old men complain...
Food is expensive too, and sometimes it is very good. Entrees at the major restaurants average $6. The most elegant room is the Toledo, downstairs in the Spanish pavilion, where the chef of Madrid's Jockey Club somewhat incongruously serves French cuisine...