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![]() Admiral's
Voyage Wins Wood on Foul After Dead Heat With Sunrise County The Shoe's Whip Angers Baeza But Riders' Tempers Cool
Later Sunrise
County Bumping 'Almost' Broke His Leg, Winning Jockey Complains--Willie: Tried to Keep Mount Straight by William R. Conklin The
jockey's controversy that followed the running of the Wood Memorial at
Aqueduct yesterday developed into a high-powered argument between Braulio
Baeza and Willie Shoemaker after their mounts finished in a dead heat. Baeza, the 22-year-old Panamanian rider,
was livid when he got off Admiral's Voyage, who finished just outside
Shoemaker's mount, the favored Sunrise County.
As he hit the scales, he lodged a claim of foul against Shoemaker. It was upheld and the offending horse was placed
second. Braulio complained angrily: "If
I had been running clear I had plenty of horse to beat him.
Shoemaker's horse bumped me so much he almost had my leg broken."
Shoemaker was white-faced and silent
when he dismounted. In the jockey's
room later he said it had been the first time he had ridden Sunrise County.
Others riders have had trouble keeping Sunrise County straight
in earlier races. The Shoe said: "If Sunrise County had been on the
outside of Baeza's horse, he probably would have been all right. We were well off the rail at the finish.
It doesn't feel too good to finish in a dead heat and then get
disqualified. I'm sure that if the stewards took the horse down, he deserved to
be taken down. Anyhow, I'm not
going to let it bother me." Manuel Ycaza, the rider of the third-finishing
Donut King, asked: "Had a dead heat but I didn't hold
on to it for long," the Texan replied. Ycaza reported that Donut King, owned
by Verne H. Winchell, Jr., had hit himself several times during the race.
Ycaza will decide after he rides in the Blue Grass at Keeneland whether
he will pilot Ridan or Donut King in the Kentucky Derby at Louisville
on May 5. "They don't come back to me," Ycaza
said of the Wood leaders. "They
were really moving. I had good
breaks all the way." Larry Adams, who steered Robert Lehman's
Prego to fourth place in the Wood, said: "He closed well today and had plenty
of power in the late stages. The
longer distance of the Derby, a mile and a quarter, should help him." While both Shoemaker and Baeza were
het-tempered after the Wood, their temperatures returned to normal before
the bugle sounded for the eighth race. |
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