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Suddenly the awful yellow of the caution lights flared around the track. Drivers slowed down, forbidden to pass each other until the danger was past. Black fumes, more ominous than any thunderhead, eased upward over the backstretch. The racket of racing engines sounded loud against the tense and quiet crowd. Reason for the yellow lights: a four-car pile-up that had jammed the track ahead of Wild Bill Vukovich. All the luck in the world was not enough to bypass disaster. Vuky never had a chance. His Hopkins Special plowed into the tangled wreckage at 150 m.p.h., bounced into...
...Landau, he had one of the worst relapses of his career. He made a fine, fast start and led the field for a mile; then, in the backstretch, he simply quit. Said a busted bettor: "That horse is so bad off, not even a head shrinker could fix him. His trouble is he knows he's inferior...
Breaking fast from the No. 1 post position, Hasty Road led the cavalry charge past the stands into the first turn, held a long lead all through the backstretch. Rounding into the final turn at the mile mark, front-running Hasty Road had a two-length lead over Determine, while favored Correlation was way out of the running, seven lengths behind, in ninth place...
...dogging his heels. But from there on, the crowd kept its eyes on Dwyer, the Villanova University senior who had run the two oldtimers into the ground three times before this season. At the three-quarter mark (3:07.5), Dwyer was in the lead, lost it in the final backstretch to Brown University's surprising Walt Molyneux, then came on with a rush for the tape, beating Molyneux by three yards in a fine 4:08.2, fourth fastest in the Wanamaker's 27-year history, and less than three seconds slower than Gil Dodds's indoor record...
...Warning Wave. Down the backstretch, Native Dancer was an unimpressive fourth, seven lengths behind Laffango, winner of the one-mile Champagne Stakes. At the far turn, Jockey Eric Guerin asked the big (1,150 Ibs.) grey colt for action. As usual, the Dancer responded with a surge of power, and by midstretch he had put away the leaders. Although the colt likes to loaf once he gets in front, a» warning wave of Jockey Guerin's bat sent him winging under the wire in an excellent 1:44⅓The victory, worth $38,525, boosted Native Dancer...