Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record mark, people who had never seen a horse race were asking: "Will he make it?" Tony did, getting in under the wire in the last race at Tropical Park on the next-to-last day of the year. On New Year's Eve, as a clincher, Tony rode Winner No. 390, two more than the longtime record of 388, set by Walter Miller in 1906 and tied in 1950 by Willie Shoemaker and Joe Culm one.* For little (5 ft. 2 in., 106 Ibs.) Tony DeSpirito, the record was a victory scored against long odds...
...Nervous." Winging back & forth to Cuba, where racing is allowed on 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...
...first time, the president and business manager rushed about frantically trying to gather a coherent report on how the CRIMSON functioned. Finally someone suggested that the T-men be sent a copy of the paper's constitution and told to puzzle it out for themselves. This idea rode high until an editor remembered that there happened to be only a single copy of the constitution, and that that copy was pasted into an ancient scrapbook in which all editors since 1904, including Franklin D. Roosevelt and James B. Conant, have signed their names...
...year-old doing a traditional task: shoveling manure. Ten hours on the job earned him two hours of riding. "But I never could get enough." Tompkins recalls now. "At night I'd go out in the pasture to ride. I did that for four years." At 19, Tompkins rode his first wild bull ("They're not as squirmy as horses"), and entered his first rodeo in Springfield, Mass. Then an eight-second ride at Madison Square Garden earned him $310, and Tompkins decided that the wild & woolly sport of bull riding was an easy way to make money...
...bounding rode away...