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...party of reporters visited the Ed Perry Ranch at Menlo Park, Calif, one morning last week to have a look at Phar Lap, the huge red gelding from Australia that won the Agua Caliente Handicap (TIME, March 28). When stable attendants refused them access to the great horse's stall, the visitors grew suspicious. Perhaps Phar Lap was sick. They waited around...
...time because a little-known horse named Gailmont was 2-to-1 favorite in a race for three-year-olds. After being far ahead, Gailmont broke down, finished eleventh. Hialeah then discovered that, though Gailmont looked very much like a horse of that name and had raced successfully at Agua Caliente, he was not really Gailmont, but Aknahton again, in a new coat of paint. His owner, one Willis Kane, was nowhere to be found. Neither was one John P. Crawford, who bought the real Gailmont last December. Much puzzled by the metamorphic career of Aknahton, racing enthusiasts found...
...month ago, bookmakers were embarrassed when a horse named Linden Tree won a race at Agua Caliente at the surprisingly long odds of 9 to 1. They suspected that someone had "tampered" with the parimutuel betting machines- i. e., bet a large amount on other horses in the race at the last minute, to make the odds on Linden Tree go up. Three days later, Baron Long, hotelman and part-owner of the Agua Caliente track, admitted he had done the tampering. He said he had done it for a joke, to revenge himself on bookmakers who had played...
Although the amount of money which he won ($6.200) was small enough to make the Long story credible, Agua Caliente stewards did not take the matter lightly. They suspended Baron Long, banned his horses at Agua Caliente. Last week, disgusted, he said he would quit racing "forever." Up for sale were the Long racehorses, his Rancho Valle de las Viejas, most pretentious stud farm on the Pacific Coast, valued...
...long-limbed chestnut gelding, Phar Lap (son of Night Raid, English horse, and out of Entreaty, New Zealand mare) has won 32 out of 42 races and $267,675 prize money in Australia. He was taken to Heather Stock Farm near San Francisco for conditioning before being sent to Agua Caliente to race in the $50,000 handicap there in March...