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...case of a good old horse against a good young horse. The youngster is Bret Hanover, the hulking (1,100 lbs.) four-year-old pacer whose 47 victories in 50 races made him the winningest race horse in the U.S. The oldster is Cardigan Bay, 10, a New Zealand-bred pacer whose own racing record showed 21 victories in 39 U.S. starts and total winnings of $586,981-$29,149 more than Bret Hanover. The race, a $65,000 stakes at New York's Yonkers Raceway last week, was appropriately called the Pace of the Century...
...BRET HARTE, by Richard O'Connor. Historian O'Connor does well with figures who never quite hit it big, and Bret Harte never did: despite all he wrote, his literary crown rests on two stories and a bit of very bad verse...
...About Bret Harte and Ah Sin's "Poker" lesson [March 18]: I believe you have been euchred...
...BRET HARTE, by Richard O'Connor. Although his collected works fill 20 volumes, Harte (1836-1902) is best remembered today for a couple of short stories and one humorous poem. Biographer O'Connor gives Harte his due both as a literary figure and as a silken-mustached rascal, who snubbed his friends and was once feelingly described by Mark Twain as a coward, a liar, a swindler, a born loafer and an s.o.b...
...Outcasts of Poker Flat, two short stories published in the Overland Monthly magazine, gave readers so honest and vigorous a draft of frontier life that Harte became an overnight celebrity. It is fair to say, as O'Connor does, that the literature of the West began with Bret Harte...