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...horseracing, riding a thoroughbred to victory No. 7,000, setting another of sport's Olympian records for generations to test against. By week's end "Shoe," 4 ft. 11½ in., was one win away, and well past the 6,032 mark set in 1966 by John Longden who was 59 at the time when he retired. No one else is within 2,000 wins of Shoemaker...
...that race; ten times since 1951 he has been the top money-winning rider (his lifetime total: nearly $58 million). Shoe's overall winning average comes close to one race out of every four-or 260 victories a year. What next? If he rides until he reaches Longden's retirement age of 59 and wins only 200 races a year, he will reach...
...tennis nut, says that his tennis elbow was cured by the bracelet. "I know some people say it's kooky to believe this," he says, "but I really think somehow it works. I don't know how." Vince Lombardi, coach of the Washington Redskins, and Jockey Johnny Longden agree; both are wearers...
Sensitive to the demands of what he calls the "Cripple Crown," Trainer Johnny Longden wanted to pull Majestic...
...Longden asserted that the Count's short career as a race horse can be directly attributed to his single effort at a mile-and-a-half, thus justifying scratching Majestic Prince from the Belmont. Perhaps Count Fleet's fifteen races as a two-year-old contributed more to his unsoundness than his six races at three. Longden and Majestic Prince seem to be quitting a Channel swim in full stroke a mile from shore, but they are quitting winners. Anyway everybody knows that Mom, Apple Pie, and Undefeated Triple Crown Winners are just a mirage...