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...rules of thoroughbred racing, the tiny, long-tailed brown colt did not belong on the same track with the nation's best three-year-olds. His sire, Saggy, was an undistinguished racer whose stud fee was only $400 and whose sole claim to fame was that he had once beaten Citation. His dam, Joppy, never won at all, and sold for $300-$150 in cash, the rest an unpaid $150 board bill. Yet, as he paraded to the post for the 87th Kentucky Derby last week, Carry Back already had earned $492,368, was up on the tote board...
...post time, the Derby still was anybody's race. The coffee-colored track at Churchill Downs was soggy from heavy rains the day before, and the big, 15-horse field included Crozier, a courageous black colt that won the Derby Trial in record time, and California's Four and Twenty, a descendant...
...ninth-ranking World War II ace with 204 planes to his credit. The two spoke through an interpreter for a few minutes in the glaring Tunisian sun. They shook hands, posed for pictures. When Hafner admired Widen's wings, the American gave them to him, and his Colt pistol and his P-38's identification tag as well. As they parted, Widen invited Hafner to visit him in Philadelphia after the war. It was a scene worthy of Richthofen himself, or Hell's Angels...
...acting and the photography combine to produce a sufficiently convincing portrayal of simple men at war, as when the terrified colt stumbles about the battlefield, the film gives an effective picture of life dancing innocently with death. But the attempts at artistry tend to be as heavy handed as the choir that wades in when the wind blows across the steppes...
...lives of its inhabitants. But this feeling is often close to sentimentality and melodrama. The soldier sways back and forth for fully a minute with a bullet in his back, while the orchestra rises and swells in the background, before he falls into the river and ends The Colt. All the characters seem to be so easily moved to pity and warmth that it was hard to believe that anyone actually could have pulled the trigger...