Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...till he meets another skier, or a tree, or a bump, and then he falls down. When he gets up he tries again. But he's happy. He loves the feel of the cool clear crystals in his early, the wind whipping by his watering eyes, and the relaxing ride...
...That is the wonder of the modern-day fairy-land that is a New Hampshire or Vermont ski resort. Whether it's a chair lift, a rope tow, or a T-bar, there they all are. All types ride the tow. And here is where the basic purpose of the skier comes to the surface...
...pretty girls stretch and wink at that handsome blond who sits two seats over in Nat. Sci. The normal boy juggles his position on each ride so he can find out what each pretty girl is doing that night...
...Sundays, Tony rode 15 more winners, still needed four, with only two racing days remaining in 1952. "I think I'll break the record now," said Tony. "I'm not nervous-just kind of tight." Tony loosened up enough-and got enough breaks from sympathetic owners-to ride winners in the second and third races the next day and to tie the record with a winner in the fourth. Tony's quest ended in the last race astride a horse aptly named King's Quest...
Tony dedicated his record-breaking ride and his winning jockey's fee ($50) to Jockey Walter Miller, now confined to a New York sanatarium. The little "apprentice," who becomes a full-fledged jockey this month, can afford such gestures these days. Purses for his winning mounts totaled more than $800,000, and Tony's income came close to $40,000 last year...