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...Josefina Vasquez, who coordinated the "Speak Out" sponsored by the Third World Coalition, said yesterday that Ed School administrators "won't throw rocks through your window, or burn your house down, but you still feel the racism in subtler ways...
...people at Belmont and for millions watching on CBS, which put up $350,000 to televise the event. Then, 3½ furlongs and some 35 seconds into the race, with Ruffian slightly ahead, there was a sharp snap. "Like a pistol shot," said the filly's jockey Jacinto Vasquez. Ruffian's right front ankle had cracked. The cheering faded as the afflicted horse pounded on, then slowed to a stop with the fragile sesamoid bones above the hoof completely shattered. Within nine hours Ruffian was dead, put down with the assent of her owners, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart...
...cannon bones as thick as broomsticks, it is a wonder that such an accident doesn't happen more often." However, another compelling hypothesis emerged days after the tragedy, when a film showed four pigeons flapping off from the track as the two horses approached, seeming to startle Ruffian. Vasquez doubts the thes ory: "We see those birds every day. Most horses don't bother with them. No, this was a freaky accident. If she had shied away from the birds, I would have felt...
...more than Secretariat's at that age). Her hindquarters are huge, and she puts them to good use. Ruffian runs with a smooth, gliding stride, and no sign of strain. "She fools you because she runs so smooth and easy," says Panamanian Jockey Jacinto Vasquez, who also rides Foolish Pleasure. Says Trainer Frank Whiteley Jr., "Her speed scares the hell...
...pressure increased as the horses turned down the homestretch before 113,000 screaming fans. Avatar, ridden by three-time Derby Winner Bill Shoemaker, was striding powerfully into the lead, with Diabolo, another California product, second. Foolish Pleasure was fourth but charging fast as Vasquez began whipping his horse. Suddenly he got an unexpected break: Diabolo and Avatar bumped, momentarily slowing down, and Foolish Pleasure shot ahead with less than one-eighth of a mile to go. "I couldn't see anything but the wire and the track," said Vasquez. "I knew nobody could catch us then." The winning time...