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Anything He Wants. In the pint-sized company of jockeys, Shoemaker is a half-pint (4 ft. 11 in., 98 Ibs.) who eats anything he wants, never visits the sweatbox, can make the weight for any horse-unlike such outsized jockeys as Arcaro (112 Ibs.), who must be fitted to heavier-handicapped horses. Unemotional as Ben Hogan, uncommunicative as Calvin Coolidge, he is well liked by his fellow jocks, well known only by close friends. He is one of the world's richest athletes. His income from racing alone averages about $250,000 a year, and he has interests...
...every mile he has raced. He was 1960's Horse of the Year, seems certain to become the third horse to win that honor two years in a row (the others: Whirlaway, Challedon). This week, with a lucky yellow ribbon wound into his forelock and Old Master Eddie Arcaro in his saddle, Kelso will parade to the post for the most important race of his brief career: the Washington International, 1½ miles over the turf at Maryland's Laurel Race Course. The stakes are a $70,000 winner's purse and the biggest title of them...
Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Highlights in the racing career of Jockey Eddie Arcaro...
...build up his store of horse sense, Sellers began studying leading jockeys, starting with Eddie Arcaro. While other jockeys were still snoring in bed, Sellers showed up for the dawn workouts to talk shop with the trainers...
Going into the far turn, Arcaro and Shoemaker were still riding neck and neck when Shoemaker shouted a warning: "Here comes Disperse!" But the horse that was coming-and coming fast-was not Disperse but Celtic Ash. Moving into the stretch, Hartack took Celtic Ash to the outside, and then simply let him go. Said Arcaro later: "That was the first I had seen of that pair. They went by awful fast." Celtic Ash ran the legs off both Venetian Way and Tompion to win by 5½ lengths...