Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poker-faced Willie Shoemaker, 31, top U.S. jockey with 301 victories in 1962, who says that he is "too old to care any more" about the U.S. riding title that he has won five times: New Jersey's $273,530 Garden State Stakes, richest horse race in the East, aboard George D. Widener's Crewman. Sent off by the bettors at 4-1, Crewman held the lead throughout the 1 1/16-mile race, romped to an easy six-length victory. Never Bend, the 1-2 favorite, finished a distant third. Shoemaker pocketed his 10% cut of the winner...
...Kelso, Horse of the Year in 1960 and 1961, considered by many U.S. horsemen to be the best thoroughbred since Man o' War: the $108,900 Jockey Club Gold Cup at New York's Belmont Park, for an unprecedented third year in a row. Ridden by Jockey Ismael Valenzuela, who never had to use his whip, Mrs. Richard C. du Pont's five-year-old gelding breezed to an easy ten-length victory, covered the two miles in 3 min. 19-4/5 sec.-breaking Nashua's track record. Kelso's $70,785 winner...
...long shot: the $231,000 Arc de Triomphe, France's richest horse race, run over Longchamps' egg-shaped 1½-mi. grass course. Finishing a dismal tenth was the U.S. Cinderella horse Carry Back, given what Owner Jack Price and other observers (including ex-Jockey Eddie Arcaro) called a "stupid" ride by Australia's Scobie Breasley. "Two hours before post time, Breasley was still in the dining room, having a hearty lunch and sipping champagne," said Price angrily. "At the eighth pole-where ,Carry Back usually makes his best run-it looked like Breasley's efforts...
Getting in Tune. Dedicated worshipers are making it easier for others to pray along with them. Continental Airlines distributes cards containing a grace-before-meals along with its lunch and dinner trays. Los Angeles Disk Jockey Dick Whittinghill of KMPC calls up his teen-ager listeners between records, asks them to join him in reciting a close cousin of the New York State Regents' Prayer: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee, and we beg thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers, our loved ones and our country.'' Hollywood Psychiatrist Bernice Harker. a Methodist...
...other end of the phone is no psychiatrist, social worker or minister, but Michael Jackson, a mobile-faced disk jockey for San Francisco radio station KEWB. English-born Jackson hates rock 'n' roll music so much that he has stopped playing it and now talks all night to anyone who calls him, letting his listeners in on both ends of some pretty fascinating conversations. His midnight to 6 a.m. program is heard from San Francisco to the Canadian border and as far west as New Zealand, and it has made such a hit with listeners that KEWB hopes...