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Halfway down Pimlico's home stretch, it looked like the 'Kentucky Derby all over again. Assault, the clubfooted chestnut that ran away with the Kentucky Derby, was three lengths outin front. Then Elizabeth Arden Graham's slow-starting Lord Boswell came charging up. At the finish, Assault, obviously tiring, was just a neck ahead-enough to earn the $99,120 first prize. On the record, Assault was the best of 1946's three-year-olds, but his Preakness winning time (2:01 2/5) was the slowest in 13 years. Ten years before, Assault's daddy...
Front-running Spy Song and stretch-driving Hampden were closest. Elizabeth Arden Graham's even-money entry finished out of the money. Knockdown ran out of gas after seven furlongs; Lord Boswell, with usually shrewd Eddie Arcaro up, twice ran into pockets on the backstretch. This week's $100,000 Preakness at Baltimore would tell whether Assault was really that good...
Most race track barns are tinder dry. The one housing Elizabeth Arden Graham's horses at Arlington Park, near Chicago, was no exception. Flames, from a fire caused by an unwatched electric heater, licked over the loose straw bedding and lapped at wooden partitions. A Negro groom threw a single bucket of water, saw that it was futile and made a beeline to save the horses...
...heavy toll was largely caused by the horse's civilized stupidity. Five of the Arden racers which had been led to safety broke loose, ran back into the blazing barn and perished. After generations of being groomed and cared for by man, horses feel that their stalls are the best and safest place in an emergency. They don't know what fire is and have little or no wild instinct left to warn them against...
...Derby Day, he would probably be up a tree again, watching Arden's cerise, blue & white colors-and taking anxious side glances at such able rivals as speedy, pint-sized Rippey, big, brown Spy Song and the Calumet Farm's In Earnest (trained by Ben Jones, who delights in running an underdog to victory). And no one knew better than Tom Smith that an unsung hero might well cross the line ahead of them...