dirty tactics: Bill Buck, telephone interview, January 28, 1998; Keith Stucki, telephone interview, March 25, 1998.
10
“I was trying to kill that Cuban …”: “Eddie Arcaro, ‘The Master,’ Is Dead at 81,”
, November 15, 1997, p. C11.
11
“To succeed in those days …”: Eddie Arcaro,
(New York: Greenberg, 1951), p. 45.
12
boxing: Alexander, “Four Good Legs,” pp. 1558–63; Alexander,
, p. 182.
13
nicknames: Wad Studley, telephone interview, February 6, 1999.
14
bug boys: Tommy Luther, telephone interview, February 2, 1998; Bill Buck, telephone interview, January 28, 1998; B. K. Beckwith,
(New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1973), p. 33.
15
imposts and lengths: Biracree and Insinger,
, p. 210.
16
“I was hungry …”: “Long Ride Over for Jockey Neves,”
, July 8, 1995, p. C1; “Neves, Howard Rider,”
, n.d.
17
“Father” Bill Daly: Alexander,
, pp. 170–72.
18
“Who hit you in the butt …”: Bill Buck, telephone interview January 27, 1998.
19
Preservator: “There They Go!,”
, fall 1939.
20
two saddles, a handful of bridles and two sacks of oats: “There They Go,”
, fall 1937.
21
riding with somewhat longer stirrups: Eddie McMullen, telephone interview, February 5, 1999.
22
Woolf’s clothing: David Alexander, “New England Racing,”
