Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pickings were slim, Willie Shoemaker had to admit-but what was the nation's No. 1 jockey to do on May 1 except ride in the Kentucky Derby? Last week the Shoe decided that his Derby Day mount would be Ada L. Rice's Lucky Debonair, winner of last month's Santa Anita Derby. "He's a nice running horse," shrugged Willie. "Not big, but he gives you his best." Faint praise, maybe, but the bookmakers were impressed. They installed Lucky Debonair as the early favorite at 3-1 to win the 91st...
First, they called a CBS all-night disk jockey, announcing that one of the boys, Richard Wideman, was about to enter his shower in an attempt to break the record. At that point...
...carriage strode the top-hatted men of the Churchill family, led by his son Randolph. In a carriage lent by the Queen were Lady Churchill and her two daughters Sarah and Mary. The march was accompanied by music of the Drum Horse and State Trumpeters in their velvet jockey caps and gold-laced jackets. Band after band-ten in all-appeared at appointed intervals in order to keep the pace steady and slow all down the long line of marchers...
...bump that could cut a precious hundredth of a second from his time, calculating the height at which he would take each of the 16 corners. Then, cautiously, Nash began to feel out the course. Scorning a steering wheel, handling the runner ropes with the iron hands of a jockey, he zipped through the first run in 1 min. 18.49 sec., the second in 1 min. 18.96 sec.-enough to give him a ⅓sec. lead over Rinaldo Ruatti in the No. 1 Italian sled...
...breeders insist that hounds are even easier to handicap than horses. For one thing, there is no jockey to worry about. Greyhounds reach speeds up to 40 m.p.h. on the straightaway. They compete without regard to sex, and the winningest dog of all time was a little brindled bitch named Indy Ann, who racked up 137 victories in the mid-1950s. Buying a hound is somewhat cheaper than buying a race horse (promising pups sell for $1,000 up), and far less chancy: unlike the ponies, greyhounds breed so true that handlers can predict the habits of a pup with...