Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bettors at 4-1 (odds on Kelso: 1-2), Mongo broke in front and was never headed. At the end Kelso was a half-length back, and eight foreign horses-from England, France, Venezuela, Ireland, Hungary and the Soviet Union-were practically out of sight. Kelso's Jockey Ismael Valenzuela claimed that Mongo had interfered with Kelso on the final turn, but the stewards dismissed the objection. The victory was worth $90,000-the biggest purse of Mongo's three-year career. Kelso got $25,000, and Jockey Valenzuela got a special award: a $100 fine for making...
Born. To Carlos Manuel de Ycaza, 25, terrible-tempered Panama-born jockey who, despite 458 days spent on the ground in rough-riding suspensions since 1957, has won more than $8,000,000 worth of purses, and Linda Bement Ycaza, 21, Miss Universe of 1960, a native of Salt Lake City: their first child, a son; in Manhattan...
TWILIGHT ZONE (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Rod Serling's "The Last Night of a Jockey," starring Mickey Rooney...
...Kelso: the $108,900 Jockey Club Gold Cup, for the fourth year in a row, by four lazy lengths at Aqueduct. Cutting his own pace ("I couldn't control him," admitted Jockey Milo Valenzuela), the great gelding galloped to his eighth straight stakes victory, ran his lifetime earnings to $1,556,702, sewed up Horse of the Year honors for an unprecedented fourth straight year...
...evening last year Joseph Jaarus, 19, of Grand Rapids dialed local radio station WLAV to ask that Disk Jockey Tom Quain play his favorite number, I Need You. As usual, the line was busy. But just as he was about to hang up, Joseph thought he heard a babble of voices through the beeps of the busy signal. "Hello?" he ventured, curiously. "HELLO!" shouted some of the voices. Joseph Jaarus had made contact with the beep line...