Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are some 700 licensed jockeys in the U. S. Last week, coming down the homestretch of the 1938 horse-racing circuit, 28-year-old Johnny Longden of Calgary, Canada, and 24-year-old Johnny Adams of Tola, Kans. led the field in a neck & neck race for the jockey championship of the year. Solemn, sharp-faced Jockey Longden was in front with 222 winners; jolly pink-faced Jockey Adams, last year's champion, close behind with 208. Both were racing at the Tanforan track outside San Francisco, riding six or seven mounts a day, and flying down...
...California racing fans, impatiently awaiting the opening of Santa Anita on the last day of the year, the Adams v. Longden rivalry was particularly exciting. Although neither jockey is as well known nationally as Eddie Arcaro, generally considered the best rider in the country, or Nick Wall. No. 1 money winner of the year (some $400.000 for his employers), Johnny Longden and Johnny Adams are great favorites on the West Coast...
Many Californians will never forget the thrill they experienced when Jockey Adams rode six winners in a row (five of them long shots) at Bay Meadows one afternoon last spring-a feat that only seven U. S. jockeys have ever accomplished. Others who had seen him break a leg during a race at Del Mar last summer, marveled at his ability to be out in front again after being dismounted for two months. A barrel-chested pee-wee (4 ft. 8 in.) who learned to ride on the Western "bush"' tracks (county fairs), still lives in a trailer...
Unlike Johnny Adams. Johnny Longden has raced on the "big apple" (New York tracks), has matched his skill against the top-notch jockeys of the country at all the Eastern tracks, is the second highest money winner ($250,000) as well as the leading rider. Ever since 1935 when he made his Eastern debut by winning five out of six races on Bert Baroni's Top Row, Johnny Longden has been in great demand. A contract rider for the famed Wheatley Stable until two months ago, he is now under contract to Don Cameron, trainer for the stables...
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault's most famous canvas, The Raft of the Medusa,* was painted in 1819, four years after Waterloo. Géricault belonged to the swank Jockey Club and the swank Bourbon Musketeers instead of to the army of Napoleon. But among 23 of his pictures exhibited last week were several such as The Three Trumpeters (see cut), which showed the gift for color and the clangorous Romantic imagination which made Delacroix mourn his early death: "Poor Géricault, I will think of you very often. I imagine that your...