Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belmont's mile-and-a-half is a long grind; the starting pace was slow. Jockey Warren Mehrtens, up on Assault, had orders to hold him back until Lord Boswell made his move. Jockey Mehrtens dutifully obeyed for a mile, decided he could wait no longer, and set out for the leaders. Assault overtook them in the home stretch, finished three lengths ahead. His winning time (2:30 4/5) was nothing sensational, but the victory put the Texas-bred horse into racing's select seven that have won All Three.* It also made Assault the 13th biggest prizewinner...
...mighty roar from 100,000 unparched throats dribbled off into silence. In the Churchill Downs jockey room skinny, Brooklyn-born Warren Mehrtens sponged the dirt off his face. Said he: "I knew I had 'em all at the head of the stretch-and oh, what a wonderful feeling...
From the start of last week's Kentucky Derby, 26-year-old Jockey Mehrtens suspected he had quite a horse under him. For seven furlongs he sat tensely tight-then he began laying the whip into chestnut, Texas-born Assault. An 8-1 white hope whose home base is the 900,-ooo-acre King Ranch of Texan Robert...
Last week, after waiting around to see which of several mounts he wanted in the Derby, 30-year-old Jockey Eddie ("Banana Nose") Arcaro, who has ridden the winners of three Derbies, climbed up on Lord Boswell in the 1⅛-mile Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. What happened reminded oldtimers of such valiant past performers as Display and Exterminator. After almost getting left at the post, Boss Man got going when the race was nearly over, charged hell-for-leather through & around horses in the stretch, won by a neck. Said amazed Eddie Arcaro...
There was a private hearing in which Jockey-Clubber William Woodward spent most of the time asking what hop Tom had given Seabiscuit to make him run so fast. There were many public hearings which convinced Owner Arden, and most of the racegoing public, that Tom had used ephedrine only to stop a horse's head cold, that it was no "hop." Nevertheless the New York Commission ruled him off all U.S. race tracks until next...