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Recent weeks, however, have shown that trainer Jolley is in charge of just one of many excellent three-year olds, and that Foolish Pleasure's road to glory will be a tough one to navigate...
Tension is now the password in Barn 42, as Greer and trainer Leroy Jolley await the biggest test of Foolish Pleasure's racing career. While the colt has captured headline after headline on route to ten victories in eleven career starts, the rapid development of other powerful contenders has drastically changed the complexion of the 101st Derby...
...clubbies through a trying punch. Their costumes sometimes get the better of their coolness and wigs and swords rattle about unhandily, but for the most part they seem in control of their roles. Sir Oliver Cockwood is played nicely by Paul Jeffreys-Powell. He and his brother Sir Joslin Jolley (Jeffrey Mahlman) roar through a series of imaginary brothels with real enthusiasm, but sometimes leave their lines hanging. Footmen, waiters, etc., all appear and disappear with reassuring regularity...
Hard-eyed little Bill Hartack, 30, has twice won the Kentucky Derby, four times been acclaimed racing's leading jockey. Working up to this year's Derby, Hartack could count himself well pleased -or so it seemed. His mount was Mrs. Moody Jolley's Ridan, a Kentucky-bred speedster who had won ten of his 13 starts and once equaled the world record for five furlongs in a casual, early-morning breeze...
...have his choice of horses for the big races ahead. Some book will not be made until Hartack's choices are made. Come Derby Day, will he ride Calumet's unbeaten Kentucky Pride, on which he has already won some Florida sprints ? Will he stick with Trainer Moody Jolley's favorite Nadir? Will he risk riding Mrs. Charles U. Bay's fast little filly Idun...