Old Handicapper

When gravel-voiced Sportcaster Clem McCarthy describes a horse race, his hearers often get the feeling that his breathless brays are coming straight from the horse's mouth. Last week he described the end of the Preakness like this: "AND it's Jet Pilot in the lead by a head. . . . AND it's Jet Pilot by a neck. . . . It's Jet Pilot by half a length. ... Jet Pilot by a length . . . Jet Pilot!" A moment later, through the roar of the crowd was heard a shattered mutter: "What am I talking about?" Then solemnly: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have made a terrific mistake ... I was looking at Phalanx and Jet Pilot disappeared on me. . . . The winner of the race is Faultless." Clem (and, with him, millions of others) had been confused by the similar silks, both predominantly offred, of Faultless and Jet Pilot.

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