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Since 1940, 27 colts have gone to the post as odds-on favorites; only twelve have come home winners. Last year Coastal blasted out of the field to crush Spectacular Bid's try for the Triple Crown; in 1961, Carry Back was whipped by Sherluck, which paid $130.10 on a $2 bet, the longest upset odds in Triple Crown history. The 1980 Belmont was to prove the same, as Temperence Hill put on a rousing stretch run to sail to the wire two lengths ahead of Genuine Risk. The Loblolly Farm colt returned...
Cash for the Contract. In 1961 Baeza nursed a long shot (odds: 65-1) named Sherluck to victory in the l½-mile Belmont Stakes. In 1963, aboard a 9-1 shot, Chateaugay, he made up ten lengths to win the Kentucky Derby and realize his boyhood dream. In 1964 Baeza had a falling-out with Hooper, settled it by buying back his contract for $100,000 in cash. He soon got half of that back from one horse alone: Ogden Phipps's Buckpasser, who last year won $568,096, more money than any other two-year...
...have ever cracked the big time so abruptly. That first year under contract to Hooper. Baeza rode 170 winners and his horses earned $964,622. In 1961 he thwarted Carry Back's bid for the Triple Crown by winning the Belmont Stakes on Sherluck, a 65-1 longshot. Last year Baeza rode $2,048,428 worth of winners-more than any other jockey except Shoemaker. Last week, fresh from his Derby victory, Baeza rode seven winners in four days at Aqueduct, boosted his winning average for the meeting to an incredible...
Such a horse is hard to find. Occasionally, the auctioneer knocks down a real bargain: Sherluck, winner of this year's $148,650 Belmont Stakes, sold as a yearling at Saratoga in 1959 for $10,500. At the same sale, fleet-footed Globemaster, best U.S. three-year-old, was purchased by Pittsburgh Coalman Leonard Sasso for $80,000, has repaid Sasso with $300.000 in prize money. With a few such exceptions, buying yearlings-which are a year away from any track-is a risky proposition. Training injuries and illness are common among thoroughbreds, and even a well-blooded yearling...
Globemaster-a habitual front runner-spurted boldly into the lead. Through the backstretch, Panamanian Jockey Braulio Baeza kept Sherluck comfortably second, just off Globemaster's slow pace. For the favored Carry Back, "there was no running room anywhere," said his jockey, Johnny Sellers. "When I called on him, he just spit the bit out." In the stretch, Sherluck overhauled Globemaster to win by 2¼ lengths and pay $132.10 for a $2 ticket. Fifteen lengths behind, Carry Back was a dismal seventh...