Word: longden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name of the horse was George Royal; he had won only one race this year. The name of the "boy" on his back was Johnny Longden, and that was enough to lower the odds on him to 6-1 as he left the gate in last week's San Juan Capistrano Handicap at Santa Anita...
...Johnny Longden is quite a boy. He is 59 now, and a grandfather. His face is wrinkled, his hair is mostly gone and his back aches-as might be expected when a man standing 4 ft. 10 in. and weighing 110 Ibs. has fallen off enough horses to break both arms, both collarbones, both legs (one of them five times), both feet, two vertebrae and most of his ribs. To the fans, Longden is known as "The Pumper" (for his style of riding) and "The Fox." He is the jockey who rode Count Fleet to a Triple Crown...
...Longden's last ride came to a classic happy ending. First time past the grandstand in the 1¾-mi. race, George Royal was running dead last. But The Pumper went to work. Looping the field on the final turn, he whipped George Royal into the lead, kept him there to win by a nose. The victory was worth $75,000 to George Royal's owner and $7,500 to Longden. But it was Johnny's last purse as a jockey. "I'm hanging up my tack," he announced. And so ended 44 years of riding...
...Florida's Gulfstream Park, he rode Johnsal, a three-year-old colt, to victory in a $3,000, six-furlong sprint. For Johnsal, it was win No. 1 in a year of trying. For Brooks, it was win No. 4,000, in 25 years of succeeding. Only Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro, Willie Shoemaker and Britain's Sir Gordon Richards have won more races...
...round of firings, icy silence from the Conservative benches greeted Macmillan as he entered the House of Commons. By contrast, sacked Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd drew tumultuous applause from his party when he meekly took a new, third-row seat. The unkindest cut came from Tory Gilbert Longden, who dryly "congratulated" the Prime Minister on heeding Kipling's counsel...