Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exercise shows to advantage the range of voices in the group, their versatility, and their style. Most Dunce songs are a parody of some music form, but few do it as well as this one. Cool Mover, a rock in roll parody that might fool a WMEX disc jockey is not new, but makes a fine addition to this collection...
...their shoulders and parade him through the streets. If he had not been too busy riding horses in New York last week, Panama's Braulio Baeza, 23, could have had just such a homecoming. Panamanians were woozy with pride. Aboard Chateaugay, Baeza had become the first foreign jockey ever to win the Kentucky Derby. As if that was not enough, the second horse, Never Bend, was ridden by another Panamanian, Manuel Ycaza. In Panama City fans clustered around TV sets to watch reruns of the Derby. One station ran the tape four times in a single day. Light & Hungry...
...Hooper. Baeza rode 170 winners and his horses earned $964,622. In 1961 he thwarted Carry Back's bid for the Triple Crown by winning the Belmont Stakes on Sherluck, a 65-1 longshot. Last year Baeza rode $2,048,428 worth of winners-more than any other jockey except Shoemaker. Last week, fresh from his Derby victory, Baeza rode seven winners in four days at Aqueduct, boosted his winning average for the meeting to an incredible...
...back in seventh place, twelve lengths behind Never Bend, Jockey Braulio Baeza was sitting chilly on Chateaugay. "He wanted to run" said Baeza, 23, a poker-faced Panamanian who rode his first U.S. horse scarcely three years ago. "I took a good hold and just waited...
...horse was there: Chateaugay. Ranging up on the outside, Chateaugay zoomed past No Robbery as if the two were traveling in opposite directions. Then he caught Candy Spots, and at the eighth pole, scant strides from the finish, Chateaugay pulled alongside Never Bend. He hung for an instant, and Jockey Baeza went to his whip. "It meant so much," he said. "I couldn't let him do that to me." Chateaugay drew out and at the finish he was 1¼ lengths in front...