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ARISTOTLE BOURAS Newmarket...
...felt his whip, and never would. Says Tudor Minstrel's head stable man: "If you whipped him it would make him nervous. It would be like whipping a good dog; he would wonder why you did it." The last time he raced, in the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket a month ago, he pulled away from 14 other prize three-year-olds and won by eight lengths, only a fifth of a second off the mile record (1:37⅓) that has stood for 36 years...
...Richards did such things as ride twelve winners in twelve races, British bookies once balked at taking bets on his mounts. At 41, Jockey Richards was still up and at 'em last week, and his wrists and knees were still persuasive enough to boot home the winner in Newmarket's Icklingham Stakes. It was his 3,000th win in 25 seasons. (Britain's Sam Heapy holds the world's record, 3,620 wins; Johnny Longden leads all U.S. jockeys with...
Horse Lovers. In Newmarket, England, a racehorse auctioneer found himself unable to keep up with the spirited semaphoring of the bidders, finally suspended the auction, then learned that his patrons were swatting at a swarm of gnats...
...England, citizens bet an estimated $40 million on their 164th Derby. With gas rationing eased, they hauled out ancient crates and cluttered the 90-mile road from London to Newmarket with traffic jams. Seam-busting race trains pulled out of Liverpool Station. Newmarket (the Derby is run at Epsom Downs in peacetime) was jammed with over 50,000 fans -including the King & Queen and thousands of G.I.s taking in their first Derby...