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Offered a choice of Derby mounts (Shoemaker also had an option on The Scoundrel), more than one top jockey has made the mistake of picking a loser. In 1942, Eddie Arcaro chose Devil Diver over Shut Out; Shut Out won at Churchill Downs and Devil Diver finished way up the track. Like every other jockey, Shoemaker has heard that story at least a dozen times, and to test his own judgment, he flew into Lexington last week to ride Hill Rise for the first time in the Forerunner Purse, a Derby tune-up. It was not much of a race...
Saturday, April 4 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Britain's Grand National Steeplechase, with Jockey Eddie Arcaro as commentator; also the National Billiard Championships in New York. SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). In Fourteen Hours, Richard Basehart wrestles with his problems (including Barbara Bel Geddes and Paul Douglas) while poised on the 15th-floor ledge of a skyscraper...
...Citation admitted a penchant for athletes "with two or four feet," but as for herself, well, she was "strictly a spectator sport." Then, as flashbulbs popped, the "little girl" filed a smiling complaint. "Why is it," she said, "that I always have my picture taken between Eddie Arcaro and Johnny Rotz?" The two jockeys could only grin and try to look bigger...
...colt some more. Gobbling up ground with his mammoth stride (estimated at 28 ft.), Candy Spots drew out, flashed across the finish line 3½ lengths ahead of Chateaugay. In the winner's circle, grooms draped a blanket of black-eyed Susans over Candy Spots, and Eddie Arcaro thumped Shoemaker on the back. "Revenge is sweet, isn't it?" he asked. Said Shoemaker: "It sure is sweet. It sure...
THEODORE ADAMS MORTIMER J. ADLER WINTHROP ALDRICH MIGUEL ALEMÁN HENRY C. ALEXANDER GEORGE W. ANDERSON JR. MARIAN ANDERSON EDDIE ARCARO ELIZABETH ARDEN