In race after race, Jockey Eddie Arcaro had seen the big grey colt pound in ahead of his own mounts. A month ago, Arcaro's sour grapesa rare item with himripened to wrath. Said he: "All Native Dancer has done is go around beating the same horses, and most of the time carrying equal weight . . . Would you call him a great horse?"
Then, last week, Native Dancer's regular jockey, Eric Guerin, drew a ten-day suspension for a foul committed when he was riding another horse in the Saratoga Special. A man with sound...
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