, May 9, 1936, p. A1; Barbara Mikkelson, “Jockey Shorted,” online article (Urban Legends Reference Pages; accessed September 14, 2000);
www.snopes.com/spoons/noose/neves.htm
; “Rider Who Came Back to Life Feels ‘Great’,”
, May 10, 1936; “Jockey Back from Dead,”
, May 9, 1936.
27
“it could get awfully rough out there …”: Arcaro,
, p. 45.
28
“You didn’t talk about it …”: Farrell Jones, telephone interview, November 4, 1998.
29
“… cannot be blotted out …”: Arcaro,
, p. 42.
30
Empire City: Tommy Luther, telephone interview, February 2, 1998.
31
“the horse, … he
you …”: Steve Murtaugh, telephone interview, May 2000.
32
living “all the way up …”: Ernest Hemingway,
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926), p. 10.
CHAPTER 6
1
Molino Rojo: Sonny Greenberg, telephone interview, December 24, 1999; Joseph Mosbacher, telephone interview, November 19, 1998; Farrell Jones, telephone interview, November 4, 1998.
2
“the house of the wilted pigeons …”: Wad Studley, telephone interview, March 2, 1999.
3
Quoting Shakespeare in the jocks’ room: Farrell Jones, telephone interview, November 4, 1998.
4
Bear story, twitch story: “The Post Parade,”
, September 2, 1937, FD; Horace Wade, “Tales of the Turf,”
, October 1958, p. 16.
5
fight … over checkers match: Farrell Jones, telephone interview, November 4, 1998.
6
“Ride ’em, cowboy!”: Carey Alexander, “Woolf Is Top Money Rider,”
, March 1941, p. 6.
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