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...rode in his first race at Panama's Juan Franco track. He finished dead last, and after the race the stewards suspended him for being "inept." Vowing "Some day I win the Kentucky Derby" Braulio took to haunting movie houses that showed newsreels of U.S. races ("Eddie Arcaro always won. He was a beautiful hand rider"), worked hard to earn his spurs in the hell-for-leather scrambles that are typical of racing in Panama. Between 1956 and 1960 he won 912 races-about one-third of all the races in the country. Then, in February...
...nine pro tournaments between 1940 and 1959, was runner-up in the U.S. Open, the P.G.A. and the Masters. He put the first golf club in Frank Sinatra's hands, tutored Joe Louis, Adlai Stevenson ("Short but straight as a string"), Rocky Marciano, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Eddie Arcaro, and Sophie Tucker ("Anybody with a pair of hands like that...
Bobby Ussery is not a classy rider. He shifts around in the saddle, stretches too far forward, and arches too high off the horse. Fans of a bygone smoothy like Eddie Arcaro are appalled. "A real butcher on style," they say. Then they line up at the pari-mutuel windows to bet whatever horse has Ussery...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Jockey Eddie Arcaro reports the Gold Cup Race at Ascot...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The English Derby from Epsom, with commentary by Jockey Eddie Arcaro. Also water-skiing from Pine Mountain...