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...jockey when today's veteran best-Eddie Arcaro and Ted Atkinson-were wearing diapers. He raced to victory on horses with such names as Man o' War, Zev, Flying Ebony, Gallant Fox. and he won the Kentucky Derby three times, the Belmont Stakes five times. In a time of purses far smaller than today's, he brought home more than $3,000,000 worth. In the age of sport known as golden, Jockey Earl Sande was the best in his business...
...Every dog that competed in this year's National Championship was a pointer; in the last decade only one setter, Dr. W. Russell Trapp's 1946 Champion, Mississippi Zev, has managed to win at Grand Junction...
Jones makes a habit of sending fat horses to the post. So did Hildreth; old-timers still remember that his Zev was "fat as a pig" the day he won the 1923 Kentucky Derby. Hildreth's superstitious aversion to cameras and black cats is something that Jones has no time for, but he shares his predecessor's ability to glance at a horse and tell how it feels. On the way to the track for a morning workout, he frequently flabbergasts an exercise boy, as Hildreth used to, by saying "Take that filly back to the barn...
...years on the Times let Davis develop his tastes. He covered the Ford peace ship, the Dempsey-Gibbons fight, the Harding arms conference, the famed Zev-Papyrus match race, wrote everything from editorials to whimsy. By 1924, when his third novel was published, he was ready to try free-lancing as a steady thing. He wrote adventure and boy-meets-girl stories for the slick-paper magazines, essays on literature, politics and realpolitik for Harper's and Saturday Review of Literature...
...agreed that the race they feared might be as exciting as a warmed-over soufflé turned out to be just what last spring's publicity had promised: "the race of the century"-even more thrilling than the great Man o' War-Sir Barton (1920) and Papyrus-Zev (1923) match races...