Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gangbuster. It was a different story at Camden. Jockey Eddie Arcaro (TIME, May 17), who came down to ride, said of Citation: "It's fun. I didn't have much confidence in him the day he won the Derby. Now I play a little game-I let those other horses sneak up pretty close, then I cluck to him. Wow! You can feel the power. What a gangbuster...
Your otherwise accurate magahogan [on Disc Jockey Jim Hawthorne] is far afield in its translation of the name of the home of Hoganites. It is Pasahogan, not Pasadena-hogan as reported in your May 10 issue...
Only one of the three new ones that went after second money ($20,000) got close enough to make it interesting. When Vulcan's Forge threatened to, Jockey Eddie Arcaro (TIME, May 17) gave Citation a couple of whacks. He paid 1 to 10, the minimum permitted under Maryland...
...Then Jockey Al Snider, Citation's rider, went fishing off the Florida Keys and was drowned. Ben was on the lookout for a jockey to ride his wonder horse in the Derby. This time it was Eddie Arcaro who made the phone call. Al Snider had been one of Arcaro's best friends; his widow got a share of Eddie's Derby winnings...
...showed that his one winner had been given a caffeine stimu lant. He was suspended from racing for 60 days. ? Carolyn A., a filly named for her, won last week's $25,000 Firenze Handicap at Jamaica. ** Plus the usual tip, which is 10% of the purse. *Apprentice jockey. The name comes from the asterisk beside a horse's name on racing charts, indicating that an apprentice will ride. *Hooking a leg in front of another jockey's leg to keep him from forging ahead...