Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Derby Trial Stakes Tuesday, Hill Rise's impressive performance scared four nags out of the Derby. Jockey Willie Shoemaker brought him from behind to win the mile event by two lengths in the spectacular time...
...from the Back. A strapping (66 in. tall at the withers) three-year-old bay owned by San Francisco Real Estate Tycoon George Pope Jr., whose Decidedly won the 1962 Derby, Hill Rise has won six races in a row, including February's $132,400 Santa Anita Derby. Jockey Shoemaker was in that race-aboard Rex Ellsworth's highly touted The Scoundrel, a powerful, stretch-running colt that tied the Santa Anita track record for a mile in an afternoon workout. The Scoundrel finished fifth, seven lengths behind Hill Rise. And it was that view from the back...
Offered a choice of Derby mounts (Shoemaker also had an option on The Scoundrel), more than one top jockey has made the mistake of picking a loser. In 1942, Eddie Arcaro chose Devil Diver over Shut Out; Shut Out won at Churchill Downs and Devil Diver finished way up the track. Like every other jockey, Shoemaker has heard that story at least a dozen times, and to test his own judgment, he flew into Lexington last week to ride Hill Rise for the first time in the Forerunner Purse, a Derby tune-up. It was not much of a race...
...there might be some doubt about his ability to go the 1¼-mile Derby distance-but he has still won ten out of 13 races, and his new rider, Bill Hartack, is an old hand at winning the Kentucky Derby (three times in the last seven years). Panamanian Jockey Manuel Ycaza, who won the mount on The Scoundrel when Shoe maker begged off, was not about to concede either. And before the week was out, Eastern horsemen were singing the praises of Paul Mellon's Quadrangle, who ran off with the $75,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct...
...field always includes a handful of no-account horses, whose owners can forever brag, "My horse ran in the Derby." They never win, but they clutter up the course. Then, the Derby being the Derby, there are bound to be ways of losing that nobody has thought up yet. Jockey Shoemaker should know. Seven years ago he hit on a dandy himself. Aboard Gallant Man, he had the race all but won in the stretch when he misjudged the finish line, stood up too soon in the stirrups and lost by a nose to Iron Liege...