Word: canter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the uncowed look of a retired town marshal sniffing rustlers in the sagebrush, horse racing's grand old man, Trainer James ("Sunny Jim") Fitzsimmons, this week celebrates his 84th birthday, shows no signs of slowing to a sedate canter. Up at 4:45 a.m. for his day at the track, Mr. Fitz still keeps two dozen thoroughbreds under his watchful eye, including Stakes Winner ($764,204 so far) Bold Ruler. At night, naturally. Fitz stays abreast of horseflesh problems the TV way: watching westerns...
...Small in the Saddle. On Dartmoor in England, TV Cowpoke Ross Salmon went for an off-camera canter on his cattle ranch, got tossed off by his skewbald mare Faithful, sent Faithful for help when he found he was too badly shaken up to remount, shivered all night after Faithful moseyed off in the wrong direction, gloomily told well-wishers: "I cannot think of anything more harmful for an experienced cowboy than to admit falling off his horse. I am afraid the kiddies will have finished with...
...coated, exclusive affair; it has acquired much of the West's dungaree-clad casualness. The better-heeled riders maintain their own mounts - at $40 to $80 a month for feed and shelter. But most ride horses they do not own. They pay up to $3.50 an hour to canter adventurously over bri dle paths in city parks or $150 a week to rough it in dude ranches from Connecticut to California...
Indignant, he leaves the bar. His plane is fleeing down the runway. Pursuing it at a sprightly canter, he is eked out by Hyperion in the Fifth...
Mosque & Motel. One morning the Shah, trailed by a procession of aides and photographers, walked from the embassy to Washington's mosque ("It is the tradition," the Shah explained, "to approach a mosque on foot"). Another morning, he got up early for a canter along the bridle paths of Rock Creek Park. After days of partying, the Shah and his retinue (14 persons altogether) packed their bags (95 pieces, totaling 5,000 Ibs.) and took off for San Francisco. This week Their Majesties will drive to Los Angeles, stopping overnight in a motel, arriving in time for Christmas...