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...York's Aqueduct Race Track, gentlemanly Jockey Ted Atkinson, 38, a studious and mild-mannered master of the art of booting home winners, won his 3,000th horse race and became the fourth jockey in history to achieve that record (others: Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro and Britain's Sir Gordon Richards...
...Blue Man's showing puts him near the head of the class. ¶ The Navy crews (varsity, j.v. and freshmen), the Eastern sprint (2,000-meter) regatta; at Princeton, N.J. ¶ The California crew, an upset, over powerhouse Washington (by four lengths); in Oakland, Calif. ¶ Jockey Johnny Longden, race No. 4,000, to put him numerically head & shoulders over the rest of the U.S. jockeys; at California's Hollywood Park. In the race for the longest winning record, Longden, 42, was still (426) behind England's 47-year-old Gordon Richards. ¶ Sam Snead, the Palm...
...other six: Walter Miller (388 in 1906 and 334 in 1907), V. Powers (324 in 1908), Jack Westrope (301 in 1933), Johnny Longden (316 in 1947 and 319 in 1948), Willie Shoemaker and Joe Culmone...
...Special Touch, the $15,000 Premiere Handicap at Inglewood, Calif. The Calumet Farm's Citation, losing his fifth straight race, was fifth, the first time he has ever run out of the money. ¶ Mrs. Wantha Davis, who once beat Jockey Johnny Longden in a match race, the ninth running of the Pimlico Ladies' Race, over five other women jockeys; at Pimlico...
Eddie Arcaro, who rode the Prince, thought his three-year-old might have had the worst of the weights (130 Ibs.) against five-year-old Noor (also 130 Ibs.) -but "still and all, my hat is off to Noor." Said wrinkled Jockey Johnny Longden: "Noor is the greatest stakes horse I ever rode." Said Noor's owner, Mrs. Charles S. Howard: "I believe we'll just retire him at his peak...