Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue Grass Stakes, Old Rockport had the same jockey who rode him to victory in the Santa Anita, sensational young (18) Apprentice Gordon Glisson. But soon after the four-horse field charged from the starting gate, Glisson found himself boxed in by three veteran riders, Johnny Longden, Ted Atkinson and Conn McCreary. The cagey veterans had the young "bug" rider where they wanted him, and they kept him there...
...visit to Lexington, Ky., Hooper met ex-Jockey Ivan Parke (the nation's leading rider in 1923-24) and decided to buy some thoroughbreds for Parke to train. The first one he bought, a $10,200 yearling which he named Hoop Jr., won the Kentucky Derby in 1945. It was a plum that many a sportsman had spent years and millions of dollars trying to pluck. Now Lucky Hooper's Olympia, a chunky bay three-year-old with a white face and a pink nose, is the red-hot favorite for the 75th running of the Derby...
...field of 30 hopefuls started, and most were clocked in at the finish line, but one fellow took a wrong turn and was last seen heading in the direction of Natick. As only one machine was entered in the balloon-tire class, the lucky-- and unidentified--rider really hit the jackpot. He won a generator set, saddle bag, and carrier, the first three prizes in his group...
Tenderfoot. In Melbourne, Rodeo Rider Reginald Cakebreak tried his little niece's rocking horse, fell and broke his collarbone...
...Lordship, a gaunt, stoop-shouldered six-footer, hovered over all calculations like a specter. Said a Liverpool stevedore, wiping ale from his mustaches: "The worst rider in the world . . . just like a sack of potatoes jouncing up & down." Not everybody agreed; his Lordship had ridden no less than 32 winners one season. But things were always happening when he rode in the National. In 1936, a rein buckle broke as he led the field to the last jump, and his mount ran right off the course. Riding Cromwell last year, he seemed to have the big race...