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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grover ("Bud") Delp, the loud and loudly dressed trainer who encouraged Meyerhoff to acquire Spectacular Bid, has been a consistent winner around Maryland tracks, but he has had little experience with a major stakes champion. While other trainers in this year's race are Derby regulars, Delp has never before attended. Says he: "The only thing I'll miss is watching the Derby...
Only last year did Franklin ride his first race. (He won.) The 5-ft. 106-lb. jockey came home a winner 262 times in 1978 and received his own Eclipse Award as the nation's top apprentice jockey. Yet Franklin's handling of Spectacular Bid has sometimes been amateurish. In two races he has allowed the horse to be boxed in at the rail, then failed to take advantage of an opening. On one of those occasions, the Florida Derby, Franklin rode Spectacular Bid into so many roadblocks that the colt had to come from 14 lengths behind...
...less weight. General Assembly ran twice against Spectacular Bid last year and twice was soundly beaten. Eddie Arcaro admires the colt's delicate skill as well as his strength: "He's very agile; he strides beautifully. He's like a dancer." Conn McCreary, two-time Derby winner as a jockey and now a Florida trainer, watched Spectacular Bid train for Churchill Downs this spring. McCreary sums up: "He's the class this year. I just can't see anything getting close...
...former or his rapturous cigarette smoking in the latter? Olivier is such a sly devil that he could make his Oscar acceptance speech, a riotous stream of sheer poppycock, sound as though it were a Shakespearean soliloquy. As TV audiences saw, it was enough to addle Fellow Oscar Winner Jon Voight's brain for the rest of the night...
...dour period piece about miscegenation in the South Seas more than a half-century ago, in which the daughter (Mia Farrow) of Pago Pago's American military governor (Jason Robards) falls for the proud native prince of a nearby is land (Dayton Ka'ne, winner of a talent search in which everyone should have looked harder). The only hope for Hurricane would have been turning it into a send-up of the old tropical lagoony genre...