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During a Florida vacation in 1951, J. (for Joseph) Elgin Armstrong, a horse-fancying contractor from Brampton, Ont., took a fancy to a yearling filly named Helicopter. Half an hour later, he bought the little brown trotter from her trainer and part owner, Del Miller, for $7,900. Explains Armstrong now: "I wanted to win the Hambletonian...