38
beaten in a photo finish: “Woolf Blames Bumping,”
, March 5, 1938.
39
“Big head, little ass …”: Bill Buck, telephone interview, January 28, 1998.
40
“icemen and traveling salesmen …”: Alexander, “New England Racing,” p. 160.
41
“the strength to blow out a candle …”: Ibid., p. 159.
CHAPTER 5
1
Thomas Dowell: “Death of Jockey Dowell,”
, July 1938.
2
“will all but saw their legs off …”: Arcaro,
, p. 49.
3
eating dehydrated lettuce: Ibid.
4
sight of water agonizing: Breslin,
, p. 128.
5
“road work”: Chick Lang, telephone interview, January 23, 1998; Woody Stephens, telephone interview, January 13, 1998.
6
DeLara: Joe H. Palmer,
(New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1953), p. 22.
7
virtuosos of defecation: Helen Luther, telephone interview, March 6, 1998.
8
“Frenchy” Hawley:
(New York: Jockey’s Guild, 1945), pp. 47–49; Tommy Luther, telephone interview, February 2, 1998; Helen Luther, telephone interview, March 6, 1998.
9
Greenberg’s reducing: Sonny Greenberg, telephone interview, December 24, 1999.
10
lost
pounds: Breslin,
, pp. 130–32.
11
“biggest disappointment of my life …”: Woody Stephens, with James Brough,
