Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This horse is not up to a hard race. If he gets tired, don't punish him." Except in flagrant cases, nobody can tell by watching a race whether a jockey is trying or not. Like pro wrestlers, they can put on a great show ? lots of whip-waving and scuffling. (If they want to lose, all they need to do is loosen the reins an instant and let the horse's head drop, or run into a jam, or lose a few lengths on a turn...
Davison also taught Eddie a wrong thing or two: he believed in laying plenty of whip to a horse. Eddie now believes that too many riders lean too heavily on the whip. The trick, he says, is to use the least possible at the right time. Arcaro often just waves the stick before a horse's eye ("it kind of scares them...
...that the rest of the field was "too drunk" to threaten. He clucked to Citation and the gap began to close. The two Calumet horses entered the stretch noses apart, Coaltown on the rail and Citation taking a path ten feet out. Arcaro did not hit Citation with the whip until he was in front and then only because he "just wanted to keep him busy. He likes to loaf once he gets by horses." Arcaro steered Citation under the wire almost four lengths in front...
...little band. He formed them into squads of experts on taxes, housing, etc., so that their sharpshooting would be accurate and deadly. He gave them their orders on voting; he told colleagues when they could speak on the floor. When they failed to get his permission they felt his whip-flick. Once a member delivered a rambling discourse on foreign relations without his permission. He asked Martin afterwards: "How did I go, Joe?" Martin snapped: "You didn't go anywheres...
Only one midget car showed up for the Eliot softball game, but there were enough players in it to whip Dunster, 7-0, in the first and possibly the last errorless House game. Bob Crichton clouted two home runs...