Word: whips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never Bend faded, but Chateaugay was a blur closing in on the leader, and for an instant it appeared that he was going to run away with the second leg of the Triple Crown. Then Shoemaker want to the whip, and Candy Sopts surged to a remarkably easy triumph over Chateaugay, with Never Bend third...
...adores Noel Coward, Princess Grace, and the Shah of Iran, but in her new book, The Celebrity Circus, Jet-Set Ringmaster Elsa Maxwell, 79, goes whip-cracking after party poopers and other peevish types: Author Cleveland Amory (''boring to look at, boring to listen to, boring to read"), ex-King Farouk ("surely one of the most repulsive creatures God ever made"), and Brigitte Bardot ("she's nude, she's horrible"). There are times, though, admits Elsa, when a girl's drop-dead list gets completely out of hand: "I've said so many nice...
...greatest of the 19th century masters was Joseph Mallord William Turner. He studied nature for mood, and he was probably at his best when the mood was ugly. His Harlech Castle is filled with menace, and in his later work, he could whip up the sea to a point that the rage of nature-painted with sponge, knife, finger, or even bits of bread-drowned form in a mist of abstraction...
...stretch turn, No Robbery ran out of steam and began to fade. Never Bend was tiring, too, but he was all by himself in the lead: caught in tight quarters along the rail, Willie Shoemaker was forced to check Candy Spots and take him wide. Then he swung his whip-and nothing happened. "I asked Spots to run," Shoemaker said sadly, "but he just wasn't there." One horse was there: Chateaugay. Ranging up on the outside, Chateaugay zoomed past No Robbery as if the two were traveling in opposite directions. Then he caught Candy Spots...
...Hollywood Gold Cup to become racing's first millionaire horse. But Brooks is best known for his knack with "problem horses" that other jockeys have written off. Shrewd, observant and enormously strong (his biceps are almost as big around as his thighs), he is an expert with the whip, once whaled a horse 50 times to win a race that lasted just 1 min. 8 3/5 sec. Another time, at his wife's suggestion, he climbed aboard a doleful 50-1 shot, finished second, forcing everyone to ask "How come?" Said he: "I just noticed when...