Word: aqueducts
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...washed up. And a good thing it is too, for Cauthen was in danger of becoming just another Trivial Pursuit question. Remember young Stevie? In 1977 the scrawny 5-ft. 1-in. 17-year-old dazzled the pari-mutuel bettors with an uncanny number of winners at Aqueduct on his way to earning a world-record $6 million in purses, the most sensational apprentice-riding performance in racing history...
...Pleasant Colony is an unlikely Triple Crown candidate (he had never won an important stakes race until Aqueduct's Wood Memorial two weeks before the Derby), his trainer is more improbable still. Campo was born 43 years ago in Manhattan, the son of Italian immigrants. His destiny was sealed when his father, a tailor, moved the family to the relatively greener pasture of Ozone Park, Queens. From his classroom window at P.S. 108, young Johnny stared at Aqueduct across the street, dreams of flying hoofs and flowing silks dancing in his head. At 15 he showed...
...course, there's something strange about reading literary television criticism at all. Somehow form and function seem skewed. When you read it in the pages of the New Yorker (which for years ran a racing column that inexplicably described the decaying Aqueduct as if it were Epsom Downs), the feeling starts hitting you even harder. One wonders--why is it there? Clearly people do not watch "Dallas" to muse over the fact our interrelationships are destabilized and smooth. On the other hand, it seems a strange intellectual game--a furious overcompensation--for one to watch a soap opera and then...
Segovia, to the north of Madrid, seems to have remained firmly rooted in the distant past. Its two principle attractions would probably have inspired Ruskin, Swinburne, or Byron: a Roman aqueduct in working order and the Alcazar, an ancient fortress. Around these lie Gothic churches and Moorish ruins. Segovia includes none of the artificial modernness effected in Madrid or Barcelona: it is simply a small Spanish town in an arid wilderness...
...mother who thinks love is eggplant parmagiana. The local police force features a sentimental cop, name of 'Ankles,' because he keeps the peace by kicking transgressors in the ankles with his size 14's. This is, after all, what you'd expect; Hamill is, as they say at Aqueduct, out of Breslin by brother Pete Hamill, the barroom columnist for a "newspaper" called the New York Post...