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...Oriola, this year's Olympic winner. As it turned out, Mariles and D'Oriola had their duel-but it was for secondary honors. The surprise star of the show, breaking a longtime Mexican monopoly: young (27) Billy Steinkraus of Westport, Conn., far & away the most glittering amateur rider to come up in the U.S. for years...
...shush them to avoid frightening the horses. Astride Hollandia, the slight-built (5 ft. 10 in., 150 Ibs.) Steinkraus had his hands full, knocked down two of the eight obstacles. "It takes more strength than I've got to handle him," Steinkraus said. But no other rider and horse did any better over the tightly spaced course...
Riding last on Democrat for the final go-'round of the course, Steinkraus needed a faultless ride to win. The crowd held its breath as the rider and his old campaigner approached the final obstacle. It was a 5-ft.-high white rail, where almost every other contestant had come a cropper. Up & over went Democrat, cleanly, bringing down a storm of applause. Later, grinning modestly, Billy explained his success by quoting an old jumping axiom: "The horse makes the rider...
...Payoff. A rider since he was eleven, Steinkraus showed more than early promise as he matured, scored an unusual double when he won both the Good Hands and Maclay Trophies for juniors in 1941. With the 124th Cavalry ("unmounted, but we had boots and spurs"), Billy won three battle stars in the China-Burma-India Theater, ended up in China as a sergeant. After college (Yale '48), Steinkraus combined his two main pastimes into a temporary career. An ardent musician ("strictly longhair"), he played the viola with the Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, joined a concert-management concern, spent...
...Pacer Good Time, a record-equaling (2:01) performance in his last race before going to stud; at Yonkers, N.Y. The victory, worth $6,750, increased Good Time's record earnings to $318,792.86. ¶Jockey Tony Despirito, 17, his 300th race this season, the eighth American rider ever to turn the trick; at Salem, N.H. Cf Australian Open Golf Champion Norman Von Nida, a playoff, 72-77, over the U.S.'s Ed ("Porky") Oliver, in the $7,840 Ampol Tournament; at Sydney...