Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he has won more races (5,100) and more money ($33,000,000) in less time (16 years) than any other jockey who ever lived, Willie Shoemaker, 33, figures his luck is mostly bad - in the Kentucky Derby, anyhow. Remember 1957, when he had the race all but won on Gallant Man, only to misjudge the finish line, stand up in the stirrups and lose by a nose? Then there was 1958, and a colt named Silky Sullivan, who couldn't run but tried; and 1960, when he rode Tompion, who could run but wouldn...
...white everywhere. Superstition aside, he had been laid up all winter with painful splints on his shinbones. What's more, he had never won a race longer than a mile- and the Derby is 1¼ mi. Before his horse ever got out of the walking ring, Jockey Hartack had a feeling that he was in trouble. "He wasn't reacting very good," said Hartack. "Something was bothering...
Like impassioned people who have opened their doors to a visiting case worker, the characters in this conventional family disgrace are aware of the camera but cannot keep the truth about themselves from its puzzled, sympathetic eye. In one warmly accurate scene at a restaurant, Peter and his mother jockey through lunch, both full of affection but unable to find a way for the man-boy to return home and do exactly as he pleases without breaking any house rules. Actress Biggs touches the nitty-gritty core of teen-age ambivalence when she half proudly, half sorrowfully apologizes...
White Fang & Black Tooth. Soupy (years ago he legally changed his name from Milton Hines) has been that way for years, dressed in a loose, V-necked black sweater and floppy, polka-dotted bow tie, taking pies in the face. Born in North Carolina, he started as a disk jockey in West Virginia, first hit it big in 1953 on Detroit's WXYZ-TV, where his TV antics cadged kids into eating lunch. Then he transplanted to Hollywood and bloomed on. He was such a smash that the stars lined up to get smacked by one of Soup...
Better early than late. At the break, Flag Raiser shot in front, opened up a five-length lead. Bold Lad moved into second place and stayed there, while the rest of the eleven-horse field was strung out up the track. Going into the final turn, Jockey Manuel Ycaza clucked to Bold Lad, and the white-stockinged chestnut slowly began to close the gap. But Flag Raiser was far from through. With Jockey Bob Ussery whipping furiously, he beat off Bold Lad's challenge, and in the end it was the favorite who tired. Almost unnoticed, Mrs. Ben Cohen...