Last week Jockey Jack Flinchum lost his "bug." Ordinarily, there is no national to-do when an apprentice jockey loses his bug (the five-pound weight advantage allowed first-year riders, dubbed "bug" because of the asterisk that precedes the weights of bug-ridden horses on race programs). But Jockey Jack Flinchum, a baby-faced 17-year-old who looks like an angel and rides like the devil, has in the past three months become the darling of U. S. racing fans.
At Miami's Hialeah Park and Tropical Park, winter visitors, converging from all over the country, took to the cute little Puss-in-boots as movie fans took to Shirley...
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