Word: rider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rambunctious years in the lower house of the .New York State legislature. In the winter of 1884 T.R.'s wife Alice died in childbirth, and he headed west to the solace of the silent spaces of the North Dakota Territory. "Black care," he said, "rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough." There T.R. ran the Maltese Cross and Elkhorn cattle ranches (see color pages), rode the range beneath springtime stars and winter snow-dust, got sworn in as a deputy sheriff by Sheriff "Hell-Roaring Bill" Jones, and generally gathered in the feel of what...
...statistical edge on Hartack in years on the track, in races won, in friends made. (As if to prove it, Willie the Shoe last week brightened the ninth year of his career by becoming the seventh jockey ever to ride 3,000 winners.) He is a patient, gentle, honest rider who somehow transmits his gentility to his mounts. They seem to run for Shoemaker out of sheer desire not to let him down. Shoemaker's finesse is a private communication with his horse...
...fall in a frightening pileup. "Jocks were lying all over the place," he recalls. Corbin talked fast to assure the boy that such accidents were rare, and a few days later he conned Bill into climbing aboard a horse. First, the beast tried to run away with its helpless rider, and Willie just managed to hang on. Next time, says Corbin, "the horse went down on its knees and Bill slid onto its head. He just sat there, asking, 'What'll I do, Junie? What'll I do now?' It was pretty funny...
...with the Answers. Hartack ran through six agents, finally settled down with 30-year-old Chick Lang, son of the jockey who won the 1928 Kentucky Derby on Reigh Count. Chunky Chick Jr., an admirable foil for his rider's furious disposition, studies the available horses at the meetings where Hartack rides, matches them against the condition book (an advance schedule of races), and picks probable winners. For 20% of the Hartack earnings, it is Lang's job to get his boy hired to ride winners and still not anger the trainers he has to turn down. It is cited...
...going to tell you what I think of him," said Veteran Rider Steve Brooks. "He don't care what we think." From his position as elder statesman of U.S. jockeys, the great Eddie Arcaro is more charitable. "He's a good rider," says Eddie. "There's no doubt of it. His records show that. As to his uneven riding, the only time he does that is in the stretch. Hartack's always been good, and I think he's improved now over what he was. Some people think he's cocky, but he doesn't mean...