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...believes is Lazaro "Laz" Barrera, Affirmed's trainer and a kind of latterday, Cuban-style Hirsch Jacobs. Son of a part-time jockey, Barrera, 53, was born on land that later became a racetrack in Havana. He began training at 16, moved to California in 1959, and worked for almost anyone who would hire him. In 1976 Barrera developed Bold Forbes, a sprinter notoriously weak at long distances, into the winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont. He was the leading trainer in both 1976 and 1977. Last year his horses earned $2.7 mil lion, and this year...
...half a dozen rousing battles and winning four. Cauthen was up in four of the matches, and came away the victor three times. Affirmed was a lot of horse to put in the hands of a youth who was then not yet old enough to vote, but Trainer Laz Barrera had no qualms about the boy from Kentucky. Said Barrera: "I'm not worried. As a rider, Cauthen is an old man. It seems like he's been riding 100 years...
...offspring have carried that trait. Both have canny jockeys: Baeza, who sits in the saddle like an emperor, and Angel Cordero, New York's top rider in 1975. Of the two, Baeza is considered better at saying whoa to a speed horse. Jolley and Bold Forbes' trainer, Laz Barrera, will each have to guess the tactics of the other before the Derby begins and decide upon his own. Both jockeys will then have to make split-second decisions as to whether those best laid of plans will have to be abandoned. One danger is that if Bold Forbes...
...those who have been out of the country recently and haven't heard, a Laz Barrera-trained speedster named Bold Forbes is considered by one and all to be the competition for Honest Pleasure in the Derby. he has the credentials to pull the upset; it remains to be seen whether or not he has the endurance...
...most significant addition was Sticht, who worked his way through Grove City (Pa.) College as a steel-mill laborer and campus odd-jobber. Sticht got his management experience at TWA and Campbell's, where he was head of the international division when the Laz ari-as Cincinnatians call the merchandising family-persuaded him to try his skills at retailing...