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...Every thoroughbred champion wor thy of the name ought to prove him self carrying weight," says Veteran Trainer Johnny Nerud. And by that measure there has never been a horse to equal Nerud's own Dr. Fager. At New York's Aqueduct race track last week, the four-year-old bay lugged...
...races, the big bay has had it all his own way. He won his first four starts in 1966 as a two-year-old, swept six in one stretch in 1967. This year Dr. Fager has raced only in stakes events, romped to victory in such prestigious handicaps as Aqueduct's $108,000 Suburban, Saratoga's $53,500 Whitney and Chicago's $100,000 Washington Park, in which he set a new world record of 1 min. 32 1/5 sec. for the mile...
...Each time he held off. The colt's ankles were still so bad that he had to stand for hours in buckets of ice to reduce the swelling, but he was winning races anyway-the Governor's Gold Cup at Bowie, the Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct. Fuller finally decided to take a big gamble, enter the horse in the Kentucky Derby, and pray that his ankles held up. Last week, with one of the most stirring stretch drives in Derby history, Owner Fuller's gimpy grey won the 94th running of the famed race...
...turned down an offer of $1,000,000 for the colt last month, Dancer's Image is a son of Native Dancer. Like his daddy, he is a grey. Like his daddy, he prefers to come from off the pace: two weeks ago, at New York's Aqueduct Race Track, he made up four lengths in the stretch to win the $113,500 Wood Memorial-the same race Native Dancer won en route to the 1953 Kentucky Derby. Oh, oh. That 1953 Derby was the only race Native Dancer ever lost; knocked off stride as he rounded...
...favorites, he is it. The 1¼ miles of the Derby may be too much for Captain's Gig; he has never raced beyond a mile. But there is no faulting his record (three for three this year) or his speed. Last year he broke the Aqueduct track record for 61 furlongs. And last week at Churchill Downs, Captain's Gig tuned up for the Derby by breezing to an eight-length victory in the seven-furlong Stepping Stone Purse...