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Miami Jockey Club announced that his Hialeah racetrack would continue its race meet though cash shortages had closed the tracks at Agua Caliente and New Orleans...
Jockey Mills's closest rival this season has been a sloe-eyed Italian urchin, one year younger and six pounds lighter. He, Jockey Sylvio Coucci of New York, had a success at Agua Caliente a year ago. The Greentree Stables, owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney, bought Jockey Coucci's contract from the Coburn Brothers (John and George), onetime racehorse owning partners of Jack Dempsey. His record with 835 mounts this year has been 161 winners, 143 seconds. He has won only twelve important stakes this season, to Mills's 18, but Coucci's twelve were worth...
...hanged. His inamorata expects to die very shortly of a weak heart. Each learns of the other's predicament. They do not reveal their knowledge to each other. Before they part at San Francisco, they gaily engage to meet on New Year's Eve at Agua Caliente. A quiet, sharp, romantic tragedy. One Way Passage was directed with the sense of pace and compression it required by Tay Garnett...
...Phar Lap (Lightning) died last April in California, the U. S. was cheated of what probably would have been its greatest horse racing year since Man o' War won 20 out of 21 starts in 1919 and 1920. Of the 37 races Phar Lap won, only one-the Agua Caliente Handicap last March-was away from home. But last week on Futurity Day at Belmont Park, L. I., Easterners rubbed their eyes and stared at a big red figure standing in the paddock.* It was Phar Lap. He had not returned to life, but the glossy coat was Phar...
...starts in the next four years he won 37 races, finished second thrice. Australians considered him the greatest racehorse in the world. Last winter with five attendants and enough New Zealand oats to last three months, Phar Lap crossed the Pacific for American conquests. His easy victory at Agua Caliente dispelled all doubt that his presence would make 1932 a great U. S. turf year...