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Professional horsemen have a high opinion of the animal. His jockey said. "I don't think he'll ever get beat unless he falls down." Reggie Cornell, trainer of the Calumet Farms horses, called Hoist The Flag a "super-horse," "the best since Count Fleet," and racing columnist Charles Hatton who has seen 50 years of horse racing claims that many like this horse better than the immortal Man O' War, Hatton of course, stands by the old timer Man O' War, but concedes that Hoist The Flag's rivals have no chance to beat him unless they push...
...decide what to do about Peter Fuller's grey colt, who was found to have been drugged when he won the Derby. In the end, the stewards succeeded only in adding to the mystery that surrounds the case. They awarded first place (plus the $122,600 purse) to Calumet Farm's Forward Pass. They suspended the Dancer's trainer, Lou Cavalaris, and his assistant, Robert Barnard, for 30 days. They issued a tight-lipped statement that spoke of "certain matters" that were deserving of "further investigation and action." But they did not say what those "certain matters...
...sport. Under Kentucky rules, the stewards had no choice but to disqualify Dancer's Image and place him last.* The disqualification cannot technically become official until a hearing is held this week, but it is virtually certain that first place and the $122,600 purse will go to Calumet Farm's Forward Pass, who trailed Dancer's Image to the wire by 1½ lengths...
Ridden by Bobby Ussery, Dancer's Image broke tardily, was running dead last when the 14-horse field pounded into the backstretch. Rounding the final turn, he still trailed the pacesetting favorite (at 8-to-5 odds), Calumet Farm's Forward Pass, by eight lengths. Only then, when the horses straightened out in the stretch, did Dancer's Image really begin to run. With Jockey Ussery merely clucking to him, he rushed up along the rail, caught Forward Pass at the imi. pole and drew away to win by H lengths. The victory was worth...
Fuller said yesterday that he has not yet decided whether to run his horse in the Preakness and the Belmont, the final two races of the Triple Crown. The disqualification gives the new victor's owner, Calumet Farm, an unprecedented eight Derby winners. Forward Pass joins the ranks of such Calumet greats as 1948 Derby-winner Citation, who went on to become the last winner of the Triple Crown...