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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...
...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...
...hand-tailored), lives in a swank Pasadena apartment. When he retires, Willie expects to expand his breeding operations: he already owns a stable of broodmares and a share in the stallion Round Table. But he is in no hurry to quit. "Retire?" asks Jockey Shoemaker. "Look at Arcaro and Longden. Why, I'd be ashamed to retire while they're still riding. I'm young, and I'm getting better all the time...
...tenth annual running of Washington, D.C.'s $100,000 International Stakes, Veteran Jockey Johnny Longden, on superbly conditioned TV Lark, shrewdly held back until the final turn to challenge Kelso (TIME, Nov. 10), the race's odds-on 2-5 favorite, then dueled down the stretch to come in ahead of Kelso by three-quarters of a length in a surprising 2:26⅓-nearly two seconds below the race record for the mile-and-a-half classic...