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...faces and his knack for recognizing and exploiting the strengths of the most unlikely looking horse. "He has the eyes of a hawk," says Owner Benjamin Schaffer, "and he never forgets anything about one of his or someone else's horse." Beyond that, Filion is a crafty reinsman who among other things, excels at a tactic that might be called the Hervé Hop. Rather than throw his horse off balance by using the reins to turn his head, Filion steers through heavy traffic by hopping his sulky two feet sideways with a strong jerk of his hips...
...Baeza reacted a fifth of a second more slowly, the 94th Preakness field might have been sprayed all over the track. Baeza rides cleanly, says little, and seldom claims foul. With a run-of-the-mill reinsman an accident would have been a strong possibility and the foul claim inevitably sustained. Unfortunately, Baeza was victimized by his own greatness...
Died. Edward F. ("Pop") Geers, 73, famed reinsman; at Wheeling, W. Va. (See Page...
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