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After the arrest, Delp immediately suspended Franklin, but then changed his mind and announced that Ronnie would continue riding horses for him. Apparently, though, Delp has changed his mind about other things, too. When he was asked about the pressures Franklin has been under of late, he said, "They definitely affected his performance in the Belmont. I thought he rode a sort of scared race. I think he wanted to eliminate any possible confrontation with Cordero, therefore he didn't ride a well-judged race.... He realized it after he watched the race on videotape a few times. He knew that he made an error." The next day Delp announced that Willie Shoemaker would henceforth ride Spectacular Bid.

As Ernest Hemingway wrote, "Seems like when they get started they don't leave a guy nothing."

FREE FOR ALL
It's one thing to have the gang over after the game, but Mike Pulos, a Phoenix restaurateur, has invited 70,311 football fans for dinner. If Arizona State wins its home opener against California at Sun Devil Stadium on Sept. 8, Pulos says he will give every ticket holder a free spaghetti dinner. Roughly figured, he says, that works out to 10 tons of pasta, 3,375 gallons of meat sauce, 18 tons of sourdough bread and 15� tons of spumoni. What, no cheese?