Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shaped scraps of paper from his notebook. His watercolor sketches were meant mostly to be notes for his fastidious and stilted oils, over which he labored long and hard ("I hate the act of painting. . . . It is like grinding my nose off!"). A few of the oils rode into the Royal Academy on the coattails of the Pre-Raphaelites. No coattails can carry them...
Once, on a bet, Pecos Bill mounted an Oklahoma cyclone and rode it across three states, flattening out mountains and uprooting forests, thus making the flat Texas Panhandle. Aside from such playful interludes, Pecos Bill spent most of his time on "Widow Maker," a horse only Pecos Bill could ride (it threw his bride, Slue-Foot Sue, as high as the moon), tending his fabled range...
Robert the Second. Bob the Second had been preparing for the job since the age of four, when he rode his first horse. He learned to rope, cut out cattle and shoot a pistol with either hand. As a boy, he used to rise before dawn, and with brother Dick and their three sisters ride 25 miles to a roundup. After dark they would ride back. Sometimes Sarah, the youngest girl, would go to sleep and fall off her horse. The others would put her back in the saddle, then wake her up to race the last mile home...
...weeks ago, at Bay Meadows, he rode six winners in one day. Next morning, he hopped into his private plane and flew down to Mexico's Agua Caliente to ride three more winners. When Bay Meadows closes, he intends to ride for two weeks at a small-time, mile track at Phoenix. He wanted to be dead sure of keeping ahead of Steve Brooks, who was so close on his heels that Johnny Longden could only express his feelings on the matter with a connoisseur's choice of obscenities...
...onetime British Columbia cattlehand who rode his first race in 1927, he served apprenticeship on dusty Western tracks and went to Mexico and Cuba to ride the "gyp" circuit in the winter. Unlike most get-rich-quick jockeys, he saved his money after graduating to bigger tracks, lived for a while in a trailer...