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...smartest jockey in the business soon found that he was on the wrong horse. When he started to make his move, the Diver didn't seem to have what it takes. Shut Out did. With Jockey Wayne Wright up, the lesser regarded of the Whitney pair was up with the front runners from the drop of the flag. On the home turn, when the pacemaker, With Regards, began to falter, Shut Out shot in front. Then, in the last quarter, standing off the challenges of Alsab and Valdina Orphan, Shut Out saved the day for Mrs. Whitney. Devil Diver...
Other Derby-goers-perhaps not so wise as the wise old railbirds nor so gullible as the tip-sheet students-will put their two bucks on the smartest jockey in the field. That title belongs to Kentucky's Eddie Arcaro, leading stakes winner last year and winner of two of this year's richest races: the Widener and the Flamingo. This week Arcaro will ride either Devil Diver or Shut Out. If he boots home the winner, he will deserve to be ranked with Earl Sande and Negro Isaac Murphy, the only two jockeys ever to ride three...
Many of the world's smartest manufacturing brains are concentrated in Detroit; so is much of the world's smartest machinery. Many a machine is no good for making anything but autos; that was why conversion was not the simple, button-pushing job that some people thought it should be. The great body and fender presses, half-embedded in concrete, are useless now; the great halls that held them are being walled off, spiders will spin webs on them until the war is over. The massive, complex, special-purpose machinery which was once Detroit's pride...
...large field, even the smartest jockey cannot always keep a good horse from being pocketed or jostled. The 25,000 racing fans at Hialeah Park, more closely crowded than the horses, prepared for a rush-hour start-it was necks and rumps, then necks and necks. On the far turn the horses were bunched like a hand of bananas. Coming into the stretch, the first ten could have been covered with a blanket. But the favorites were too near the stem. Market Wise, the people's choice, got lost in the early shuffle...
...stretch run that looked like Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, & floppy-eared chestnut pulled farther & farther in front. It was Mrs. Payne Whitney's The Rhymer, a four-year-old who-despite the fact that he was ridden by Eddie Arcaro, smartest jockey in the business-had been listed among "the field" in the pari-mutuel betting.-At the finish line The Rhymer was a head in front of Best Seller, a 58-to-1 shot. Third was Olympus, another "field horse...