Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foolish and eccentric off the race track, and completely crazy on it. It took three men to put a saddle on him. In the paddock the horse shook like an aspen. When he went into a turn during a race, no amount of strong-arming by a jockey could keep him from going wide...
...eleven years of racing, canny, Canadian-born Jockey Ted ("Slasher") Atkinson had whipped his way home with the winner almost more times than he could remember; had won more than $6,000,000 in purses for his employers. But unlike his rival, banana-nosed Jockey Eddie Arcaro, Ted Atkinson had never been first at the finish in a big race like the Kentucky Derby or the Preakness...
...Pimlico last week, when Jockey Atkinson mounted Capot again for the $75,000 Preakness, the track was lightning fast as the nine horses shot from the starting gate. Noble Impulse, the pacemaker, chopped a second off the track record for the half-mile, 2 4/5 seconds off the seven-furlong mark (with a sizzling 1:23 1/5). In the stretch, Slasher Atkinson went to the whip and drove into the lead. Atkinson no longer had to worry about groggy Noble Impulse, but Eddie Arcaro, aboard Palestinian, had slipped through a hole on the bend. For the last 100 yards...
When the film came out of the darkroom, it was Capot by a short head. It was also a track record (1:56) for the mile and three-sixteenths and Jockey Atkinson's first Preakness victory. Said he, grinning: "I didn't know I'd won until I saw the board...
Success has also aroused a desire for "more time for Berle." One friend is skeptical of this reach for leisure: "What Milton would really like would be to have his TV and radio shows, do a midnight turn at a nightclub, have a disc jockey show from noon to 2, spend some time during the week with Dick Rodgers batting out a few tunes. Sandwiched in between, he'd direct and produce a play, stage some revue sketches, be a TV network consultant, be called to Hollywood to star in, co-produce, co-direct, co-write and edit...