Brokers Tip won the 1933 Derby by three-quarters of an inch because jockey Herb Fisher
turned the head of his horse, Head Play) while fighting with jockey Don Meade, who rode
the winner. You may see the one and only headshot showing these two riders beating each otherwith their whips. ESPN shows it most every year. Wallace Lowry's photograph in The Courier-
Journal, which showed the riders' hand-to-hand battle, made this race famous. After the race,
Fisher and Meade were both suspended by racing authorities, and the two jockeys didn't speak for 15 years. They eventually became friends. Not too many people spoke with Meade.
I had Eddie Arcaro as a client in an Oil & Gas lease deal up to and just before his death. He
knew and hated Meade very well. They were all pretty dirty riders in those days. Arcaro said,
if a rider pulled along side Meade, he would grab any part of him he could and yank the rider
off his mount. When he died, hundreds of Race track types came to his funeral to make sure he
was buried.
turned the head of his horse, Head Play) while fighting with jockey Don Meade, who rode
the winner. You may see the one and only headshot showing these two riders beating each otherwith their whips. ESPN shows it most every year. Wallace Lowry's photograph in The Courier-
Journal, which showed the riders' hand-to-hand battle, made this race famous. After the race,
Fisher and Meade were both suspended by racing authorities, and the two jockeys didn't speak for 15 years. They eventually became friends. Not too many people spoke with Meade.
I had Eddie Arcaro as a client in an Oil & Gas lease deal up to and just before his death. He
knew and hated Meade very well. They were all pretty dirty riders in those days. Arcaro said,
if a rider pulled along side Meade, he would grab any part of him he could and yank the rider
off his mount. When he died, hundreds of Race track types came to his funeral to make sure he
was buried.
