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...closest competitor today, thin-faced Ted Atkinson, 31, is known as The Slasher because of the way he flails the whip. Arcaro's only other serious rival is the West Coast's favorite Johnny Longden, who is 38. They all have slightly different styles. Longden, for example, is famed as a "whoop-te-do" rider: a jockey who likes to get out front and stay there. Atkinson rides with his stirrups even; Arcaro uses what is called the "ace deuce" technique, in which the right stirrup is about two inches higher than the left. Says Arcaro: "I don't agree...
...Meadows near San Francisco, wrinkle-faced Jockey Johnny Longden (TIME, Dec. 8) rode his 3,000th winner on a horse named Bub. Only one other jockey, Britain's Gordon Richards (who booted home his 3,508th winner last week), has won more...
...Johnny Longden, an old man in his trade, may not be the best jockey in the U.S., but he has won more races in 1947 than anyone else. At 37, when many successful jockeys are wealthy enough to sleep late, he is out at San Mateo's Bay Meadows track at 6 a.m., before the morning mists clear off. He wears tailor-made leather jackets with tassels, talks out of the side of his thin-lipped mouth, sports a $2,000 diamond ring on one hand. Jockey Longden is proud that he isn't slowing down...
...Agua Caliente to ride three more winners. When Bay Meadows closes, he intends to ride for two weeks at a small-time, mile track at Phoenix. He wanted to be dead sure of keeping ahead of Steve Brooks, who was so close on his heels that Johnny Longden could only express his feelings on the matter with a connoisseur's choice of obscenities...
...Front First. Back at Bay Meadows last week, the wrinkled-faced little jockey won eight races, then went down south of the border to win three more on Sunday. That made his score for the season 293, nine more than Steve Brooks. Longden did not have the power of an Eddie Arcaro (who sometimes looks as if he gets off and lifts a horse across the finish) or Earl Sande's rare judgment of pace. But people liked to bet on his horses because they got a run for their money. Besides a high reputation for honesty...