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...rest of the field. Then he promptly dropped back to last in the field of 13. Since he was the 3-to-2 favorite, he must have given many thousands of backers an anxious moment. But that seems to be the strategy that he and Turcotte, his steady rider for most of the past year, have worked out together...
...thoroughbreds. Penny Tweedy, 51, inherited the 2,600-acre farm from her father Christopher Chenery, the public utilities magnate who founded the stable. The wife of John Tweedy, executive vice president of The Oil Shale Corp., and the mother of four, Mrs. Tweedy has been a lifelong horsewoman, a rider of show horses since her childhood in Pelham Manor, N.Y. After Smith College and a stint as a Red Cross "donut dolly" in France and Germany during World War II, she entered the Columbia Graduate School of Business. The training, says the regally attractive president of Meadow Stud, Inc., "gives...
Though Laurin has been known to chew out fellow French-Canadian Ron Turcotte in salty Gallic argot, he insists that "I never give my rider instructions. If I didn't think he was the best in the business, I wouldn't be riding him." Turcotte 31, has all the credentials. One of 14 children, he added muscle to his diminutive frame (5 ft. 1 in.) by cutting wood with his lumberjack father in Grand Falls, New Brunswick...
Turcotte rode his first race as an apprentice jockey in 1961. The following year, he posted 180 victories to become Canada's top jockey. The muscular little rider moved to the U.S. in 1964, and has guided his mounts to more than $1,000,000 in total purses every year since. Last year his 10% share of his horses' winnings came to $278,000. Now a rock-hard 112 Ibs., he credits his wife Gaetane's calorie-conscious cooking with helping him to keep slim. His old lumberjack's breakfast menu of eggs, flapjacks, beans, meat...
Despite his triumphs, he admits to few pretensions about his importance in the saddle. "The horse does the running," he says. "The biggest mistake a rider can make is to feel that he's more important than his horse and not give him credit for intelligence...