Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some insisted that Tom Fool would have won at a mile or less; some picked the Dancer under any circumstances. "Tom Fool was a big, tough marine, a smart s.o.b. who would give it all to win," said one track veteran. "But the grey horse . . ." He paused. "He's a genius, that...
Belmont's Barn 20 is an equine Ritz-Carlton, decorated with bright splashes of Vanderbilt's cerise and white and run by a veteran drill sergeant of a foreman who has Vanderbilt's and Winfrey's mandate to buy whatever he needs to keep the race horses fit and happy. Stall 6 is the royal suite. The Dancer, afflicted with the typical thin skin of the grey, suffers from the heat and can't stand flies, so there are fans to keep the air moving through the stall and an automatic fly-spraying system for the entire barn...
...handily and, to the surprise of no one, was assigned the highest weight for his first handicap race?the Metropolitan. A pleasantly unswervable gentleman named John Blanks Campbell, veteran of 49 years at the tracks, enjoys the "dictatorial power to estimate the talents of horses at most of the big eastern race tracks and thereupon to garland each with an amount of weight theoretically calculated to make all the horses in a handicap race cross the finish line simultaneously. The idea for the Metropolitan was that Native Dancer should carry 130** and the next closest horse?Straight Face?should carry...
...jockeys' room, the riders slip on their silks. Thin-faced Eric Guerin, the Cajun-born veteran who is about to ride the Dancer for the 20th time (in 21 races), still feels special about it. "You can try to tell someone how good it is, how strong he feels and what it's like to ride him," he says, "but you can't; a guy's just got to ride him to know."Jockey Jack Westrope, whose mount, Magic Lamp, is a 30-to-1 shot, says: "I'm not afraid of the grey horse." Guerin looks at Westrope...
Died. Louis Stark, 66, veteran New York Times newsman, Pulitzer Prize-winning dean of U.S. labor reporters; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...