Word: colt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still are-with reservations. Fingerprints, says Thorwald, can readily be altered by skin grafting, and the age of microbiology may well produce new possibilities of papillary imposture. ∙ FORENSIC BALLISTICS was largely developed by an idealistic American named Charles Waite, who, until late middle age, could hardly tell a Colt from a filly. In 1917, while holding a minor post in the office of the New York State prosecutor, Waite got interested in the case of a man condemned to death on the evidence of a phony ballistics expert. With the help of a New York City detective, Waite demonstrated...
...which says something for the process of natural selection-unless the sire happens to be Nantallah and the mare is Rough Shod II. Neither ever amounted to much on the track, but they are all business in the barn. The first product of their union was Ridan, a huge colt who won $635,074 before he was retired to stud in 1963. Next came Lt. Stevens, who is still racing as a four-year-old and has won $240,949. Then there is Moccasin. A strapping chestnut filly, Moccasin is two years old, and has been to the post seven...
...tracks. Like most French races, the Arc is run clockwise, and Longchamp's 1½-mile grass track is anything but flat: in the middle, it is 38 ft. higher than at the start and finish. Jockey Willie Shoemaker still insisted that Tom Rolfe had a chance. "This colt is hickory," said The Shoe...
...bends, and so did Tom Rolfe-in the wrong direction. Fighting for the lead around the last turn, just three-eighths of a mile from the finish, he tried to go left instead of right. By the time Shoemaker got him straightened out, the plucky little (950 lbs.) colt had lost a good deal of ground and most of his enthusiasm. Charging up from sixth place, looping the leaders and pulling away in the stretch, favorite Sea Bird romped to an easy six-lengths victory -while Tom Rolfe faded all the way back to sixth, behind four French horses...
...Bret Hanover: the $70,000 Little Brown Jug, harness racing's best-known contest for pacers; at Delaware, Ohio. Winner of 42 out of 45 starts and $420,403, the three-year-old colt won the first one-mile heat by 3¼ lengths in 1 min. 57 sec.-a new world record for a ½-mile track-took the second heat...