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Billy earned the nickname "Last-Race Cookie" following his riding of the winner in the last race 13 Saturdays in succession in Sydney. He was also known as "The Champ", due to his exquisite riding skills. He won six Sydney jockeys' premierships during a distinguished career riding in Australia and overseas.
A stardate is a fictional system of time measurement developed for the television and film series Star Trek.In the series, use of this date system is commonly heard at the beginning of a voice-over log entry, such as "Captain's log, stardate 41153.7.
Cook was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 10th round, with the 287th overall selection, of the 2021 Major League Baseball draft. [5] [6] He spent his first professional season with the rookie–level Gulf Coast League Orioles and Single–A Delmarva Shorebirds, hitting .263 with six home runs, 29 RBI, and 10 stolen bases over 29 total appearances.
She later married champion jockey Billy Cook. [7] Raymond Longford later claimed he worked on the film as an associate. [8] According to Jack Murray, assistant to cinematographer Arthur Higgins, Thing was a director in name only and the real director was Higgins. [9] It was Efftee's most expensive film. [10]
An in-depth portrait of Billy Cook, his crimes and execution appears in John Gilmore's 2005 book L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes & Bad Times. Cartoonist Mark Zingarelli made a seven-page hard-boiled comic story on Cook in 1987, titled "The 'Cockeyed' Cook Story" collected in The New Comics Anthology ( ISBN 0-02-009361-6 ).
It has been suggested that the inspiration for the protagonist in the film, played by Morrison, with the script name "Billy" was inspired by the real hitchhiking serial killer Billy Cook who murdered six people on a 22-day rampage between Missouri and California in 1950–51. [2]
Ida Lupino (left) directing The Hitch-Hiker. The Hitch-Hiker was based on the 1950 killing spree of Billy Cook who, posing as a hitchhiker, murdered a family of five, kidnapped a Riverside County Sheriff's Department deputy and abandoned him in a desert (the deputy survived), and killed a traveling salesman, before attempting to flee to Mexico by taking two men on a hunting trip hostage and ...
For over a year, Scurlock was in several posses to pursue and arrest horse thieves. He, Bowdre, and others lynched some of the thieves they caught. In January 1877, Scurlock and a neighbor, George Coe, were arrested by Sheriff William J. Brady for suspicion of harboring a murdering fugitive and member of the Jesse Evans Gang named Frank Freeman.