Willie Hartack

While the sun shone bright on my old Kentucky home, Bill Hartack, the rider with the finest record in the Derby, had a single sorry mount at a Hong Kong track

Young Mr. Hartack surprised his elders, but an older horse upset his juniors when the Belmont race track staged its greatest day of the year for 36,000 fans

In one Saturday which reflected racing's golden boom, three better-than-$100,000 purses were up for grabs. At Monmouth, N.J. and Hollywood Park (Calif.), the public choices were easy winners. At Arlington (Ill.), the...

•Shock of the WeekIn a week in which the Yankees lost a two-game series to the White Sox—with Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin making horrible bobbles afield—a Page One banner in the New York World-Telegram and Sun...