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...Steve Brooks, 41, "the psychiatrist," and swear that he talks to his horses. If he does-and Brooks does not deny it-he speaks the right language. Last week, at Florida's Gulfstream Park, he rode Johnsal, a three-year-old colt, to victory in a $3,000, six-furlong sprint. For Johnsal, it was win No. 1 in a year of trying. For Brooks, it was win No. 4,000, in 25 years of succeeding. Only Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro, Willie Shoemaker and Britain's Sir Gordon Richards have won more races...
...weekday afternoon recently, Vanderbilt and Winfrey sent the Dancer out for his 1954 debut?a six-furlong sprint...
...Jamaica, N.Y., a rangy bay colt named Errard King galloped his way to earnest consideration as a Kentucky Derby candidate by winning the six-furlong Experimental Free Handicap No. 1, first of the classic trials for three-year-olds, in the record Experimental time...
...Rice's two-year-old Mr. Paradise, the six-furlong, $107,120 Washington Park Futurity, with Jockey Eddie Arcaro racking up his 31st stakes victory of the season, in 1 min. 10 3/5 sec., by 1½ lengths over Mr. Good, for a $79,710 purse; in Chicago...
With Battlefield and Big Stretch unwilling to try again against the horse that had beaten them in a six-furlong conditioner five days before, the Colando colt seemed to be a cinch. But the mile-and-a-sixteenth Experimental was an entirely different matter. Starting in the outside post position, and carrying top weight of 126 Ibs., he never made it a race. Uncle Miltie finished eighth, five lengths (i.e., 4½ & a nose & a head) behind the winner, King Ranch's Sonic, which carried only a feathery 105 Ibs. The time...