Twice in a Lifetime

At New York's Jamaica race track one afternoon last week, saddle-scarred Alfred Robertson booted home six winners on a seven-race card. It was the first time the rare six-in-seven had been accomplished on the Big Apple (New York tracks). But that is not the only reason New York railbirds will long remember Robbie's remarkable feat.

Every single one of his winning mounts was a long shot: Sorgho, who paid $15.80 for $2 in the pari-mutuel machines; Running Lights, $29.30; Sun Galomar, $23.40; Grand Party, $20.80; Paul Pry, $12.70; Starlike, $46.30. If a $2 bet could have been parlayed on Robertson's six winners --which it could not because the odds would go to pieces--the lucky better would have pocketed $4,140,434.45.

Yet more remarkable than such imaginary winnings was Robertson's string of victories. It was the sort of performance which few jockeys are lucky enough to put over once in a lifetime. But it was the second in Robertson's lifetime. Once before, in 1928, at Oriental Park in Havana, he took six in seven.

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