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When Eddie Neloy was 14 and a sophomore in high school, he ran away from home to become a jockey. "How was I to know," he sighs, "that I was going to grow up to be 6 ft. 2 in. tall and weigh 220 Ibs.?" Since Eddie couldn't...
Cash for the Contract. In 1961 Baeza nursed a long shot (odds: 65-1) named Sherluck to victory in the l½-mile Belmont Stakes. In 1963, aboard a 9-1 shot, Chateaugay, he made up ten lengths to win the Kentucky Derby and realize his boyhood dream. In 1964...
Purposeful Maneuver. Along the rail. Ogden Phipps's Dapper Dan, another son of Ribot and runner-up to Lucky Debonair in the Derby, began to make his move. Jockey Turcotte remembered. Whipping righthanded, he drove Tom Rolfe straight toward the rail as if he intended to run right into...
Married. Thomas Schippers, 35, brilliant, boyishly handsome conductor of New York's Metropolitan Opera Co.; and Elaine Lane ("Nonie") Phipps, 26, socialite daughter of Palm Beach's former ten-goal-rated polo star, Michael Phipps; in Manhattan.
Chips & Splints. This year's casualties beat all. First there was Mary Hecht's Sadair, which won more money ($498,217) last year than any two-year-old in history; two months ago in Florida, Sadair cracked a bone in his foot. Then there was Bold Lad, brightest...