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...Rice's two-year-old Mr. Paradise, the six-furlong, $107,120 Washington Park Futurity, with Jockey Eddie Arcaro racking up his 31st stakes victory of the season, in 1 min. 10 3/5 sec., by 1½ lengths over Mr. Good, for a $79,710 purse; in Chicago...
...Well, 1⅛-mile, $100,000-added American Derby, by 2¼ lengths, after he took the lead in the stretch and lengthened it all the way home; at Chicago's Washington Park. The race hoisted Calumet's 1952 winnings to $1,091,262, gave Jockey Eddie Arcaro his 29th stakes victory of the year...
...years ago, after a rough & tumble career that earned him more than his share of spills and quarrels, Jockey Eddie Arcaro was brought before a board of stewards. Did he, they asked, deliberately try to spill a rival rider? Arcaro, who had been rammed at the start of the race, answered candidly: "I'd of killed the sonofa-bitch if I could." Arcaro was suspended for a year...
...experience taught him a lesson: a good jockey must control his temper. Since then, Arcaro has become the No. 1 money-winning rider in the world. Starting in 1938 on Lawrin, he won the Kentucky Derby five times, the Belmont Stakes five, the Preakness four. In 1941, he hit the Triple Crown jackpot with Whirlaway and again in 1948 with Citation. Last week at Chicago, Arcaro, 36, on a horse named Ascent, passed another milestone: winner of 3,000 races, a record for an American-born jockey...
Though Peggy's dream leader-brandishing a whip-sounded more like Eddie Arcaro than a spurred cavalryman, Decca was impressed, agreed to let her record the old waltz as a triple-gaited mambo with a 37-piece accompaniment. In its first two weeks, Peggy Lee's Lover has sold 250,000 copies...