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...royal box atop the vast grandstand, the Queen fidgeted nervously as the 28-horse field nudged the starting tapes. The early favorites included two U.S.-owned colts: Mrs. Ralph Strassburger's white-socked Moutiers (7 to 1) and Mrs. Oliver Iselin's Pardao (10 to 1). Little attention was paid to Pardao's lackluster half brother, a British-trained colt named Psidium. "We're not backing him much. My husband has only a few bob on him," admitted Psidium's owner, Mme. Arpad Plesch. Bookies in London's newly legalized horse parlors thought even...
Turfmen knowingly call it class. Sportswriters fondly call it heart. Whatever it is, it is the indefinable quality that is the hallmark of a great competitor. This year it has spurred a little, long-tailed brown colt named Carry Back into outrunning the limited promise of his unimpressive pedigree. With victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness behind him and capable Jockey Johnny Sellers in his saddle, Carry Back will parade to the post for the $125,000 Belmont Stakes this week, an odds-on favorite to become the first thoroughbred in 13 years to win U.S. racing...
...playful, 950-lb. colt that cost Trainer-Owner (with his wife) Jack Price only $400 in stud fees, Carry Back already has earned $739,068-more than any other horse his age in racing history. He has won at nearly every distance from three furlongs to a mile and three-sixteenths, on every kind of track, under every conceivable condition except snow. He took the Florida Derby in the mud, the Garden State Stakes in slop, the Kentucky Derby on an offtrack, and the Preakness on a fast, cuppy (i.e., crumbly) surface. Although he holds the five-furlong track record...
...jangling, come-from-behind performance-has caused many an anxious moment. In the Wood Memorial at New York's Aqueduct race track.,Carry Back dawdled well off the pace as the pack pounded into the stretch-and anxious Jockey Sellers desperately whaled him with his whip. Angered, the colt pinned back his ears, curled his lips in a defiant snarl, and refused to run. He finished a bad second to Globemaster, whom he later beat decisively in both the Derby and the Preakness. Jockey Sellers has never whipped Carry Back since...
...took matters into his own hands. "I shook the stick at him," he said, "and he started to run." Veering to the outside, Carry Back flashed past the exhausted Globemaster and pulled even with Crozier. Again Sellers waved his whip; again Carry Back responded. At the finish, the brown colt was in front by almost a length. Carry Back had earned another $120,500, and crewcut Jockey Sellers-at 23, the nation's leading jockey (TIME, March 24)-had won his first Kentucky Derby. "All I had to do," said Sellers modestly, "was ask that horse...