Evening star., 1958-05-13
ATCHISON'S A S
A NC LIE
BY LEWIS r. ATcHIsoN

lN WV
The man on the street prob
ably was surprised to read that
Mrs. Elizabeth Graham was
substituting Manuel Ycaza, the
whoop-te-do riding Panaman-
ian, for the more sedate Eddie
Arcaro on Jewels Reward in
Saturdays Preakness. 1t even
may have been a small shock
to Arcaro, whom most experts
regard as the greatest money
rider" of our age.
True. Eddie didn't win the
Derby with Jewels Reward, as
he was expected to do, but there
were mitigating factors, in
cluding a muddy track.
But does Casey Stengel bench
Mickey Mantle for striking out?
Hardly. Would Joe Kuharich
set down Eddie LeBaron for
missing a touchdown pass?
Never. Mrs. Graham probably
would. A bannerline over a
story about the lady in this
years Kentucky Derby issue of
the Morning Telegraph sums up
her way of running her famed
Maine Chance Stable. 1t read:
Mrs. Graham, a Woman Who
Wants Things Done Her Way"
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If it is any solace to Arcaro.
he isn't the first star rider to
be bumped. In fact, Eddie got
the Derby mount on Jewels
Reward that way after Ycaza
rode the colt to head vic
tory over Tim Tam and Willie
Hartack in the Flamingo
Stakes and lost the winner
$97,800 on a disqualification.
Losing Derbies and mounts
should be old stuff to Eddie
by now. He's won the Derby
five times but in l947 he was
nosed out by Jet Pilot on C. v. !
Whitney's favored Phalanx,
and many observers were crit
ical of his ride. At the half
mile post Phalanx was last in
a field of l3. Phalanx went to
the post the lilo favorite in |
the Preakness, despite his de-
feat at Louisville, and this time |
he finished third behind Fault
less and On Trust.
That was enough for Trainer
Syl Veitch. When the mile
and-a-half Belmont Stakes
came around in June, the rider
was Chilesn-born Ruperto Do
noso, and this combination
paid of with a victory.
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Even Earl Sande, the Arcaro
Of the 1920s, had to make way
for another rider when Trainer
H. Guy Bedwell decided to
make a last-minute switch of
jockeys on Sir Barton for his
famed match race with the
great Man o. War at Kenilworth
Park in Canada. Sande had
ridden Sir Barton, the first
horse ever to win the Triple
Crown. in many of his races
but only a few hours before the
test with Man O. War Bedwell
announced that Frank Keogh
would ride. Keogh now is a
track official in New York.
Years later when Bedwell was
asked about the incident, he
explained that he made the
change because the then youth
full Sande was in slump.
Our own Sonny Workman
suffered Arcaros fate in 1888
for losing the San Antonio
Handicap on Seabiscuit. 1t de-
veloped into a neck-and-neck /
stretch duel between Sonny !
on The Biscuit and Charlie Ro-
sengarten on John Manfuso's
Aneroid, and for once in his
life Workman, one of the best I
of the modern whip-riders. |
didn't use his bat. He lost by
a nose to the WASHINGTON
owned horse. and Owner
Charlie Howard and Trainer
Tom Smith were more than a
little miffed.
Sonny later was quoted as
saying he thought he had /
enough horse to win without .
whipping, but it didn't appease /
the stable officials. A couple
of weeks later George Woolf /
replaced him on Seabiscuit in
the Santa Anita Handicap. The |
Biscuit was second in this one,
too, while trying to concede 80
pounds to the 3-year-old Stage
hand, ridden by Nick Wall.
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In October. 1917, Omar
Khayyam, the only foreign
bred horse to win the Kentucky
Derby. and HourlesS. who won
the Belmont the same year,
were brought together in a
match race at Laurel. Jimmy
Butwell. one of the better rid .
ers Of the time. was HourlesS'
regular Jockey, but Trainer
Sam Hildreth didn't like the
way he handled the colt in TAX /
ing a licking from Omar Khay-
yam at Saratoga. N
Less tn a half ho before
khe matGaf race Hiltseth re-