Word: ycaza
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Divorced. Manuel Ycaza, 31, tabasco-tempered Panamanian jockey, whose hell-for-leather racing style has won more than $19 million in purses since 1957; by Linda Bement Ycaza, 27, Miss Universe of 1960; after seven years of marriage, two children; in Mineola...
...rabbit" (pacesetter) named Hedevar. In their two other matches, Hedevar was stabled, and Dr. Fager whipped Damascus handily. Dr. Pager's other defeat was in last year's Jersey Derby, which he won by 61 lengths only to be dis qualified because Jockey Manuel Ycaza permitted him to cut across the pack...
...horse racing these days, the road to riches obviously starts in Panama. Last year Panama's Braulio Baeza took $2,951,022 in purses, second high est total in history; his countryman, Manuel Ycaza, has won more than 2,000 races in eleven years. The best grass-course rider in the U.S. is Heliodoro Gustines, and of the eleven top money winners so far in 1967, four are Panamanians: Baeza, Jacinto Vasquez, Lafitt Pincay Jr. and the winningest jockey of them all, Jorge Velasquez, 20. With 248 victories by last week, Velasquez seems almost certain to become the third...
...York's Aqueduct race track six weeks ago, he was grounded for 15 days after he veered sharply in the stretch and blocked three other horses. Advocator won by 1¼ lengths, but was disqualified by the stewards-costing Owner Rice $54,405. Two weeks ago, Ycaza earned another 15-day suspension from New Jersey stewards for rough riding aboard William L. McKnight's three-year-old colt, Dr. Fager, in the $119,200 Jersey Derby at Garden State Park. Going into the first turn, he dropped in sharply, cutting off his competitors and forcing one into...
Those two infractions, plus another 20-day suspension for "interference" in a previous claiming race at Aqueduct, gave Ycaza a total of 50 days of enforced vacation since April. But more than one racing expert thought Ycaza's punishment was too light. Mused Morning Telegraph Correspondent Charles Hatton: "One wonders when an erring athlete in this sport is to be considered incorrigible...