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...Trial real good," said Trainer Willie Molter. "He's a tough little guy. I hope that race helped him, because he needed tightening. But I'll be doggoned if I wanted it that tight." Willie Molter was talking about a spunky little (15 hands, 875 Ibs.) grey colt named Determine, and Determine had barely been nosed out in the Trial by Hasty Road, 1953's champion two-year...
...been for the fact that he was to be ridden by sage little Willie Shoemaker, 22, a master at getting the best out of his mount at the right time. The odds-on favorite of the Eastern crowd was C. V. Whitney's sturdy brown colt, Fisherman, winner a week before of the mile-and-a-sixteenth Gotham Stakes (TIME. April...
...with Jockey Shoemaker handling him easily, slid in behind the pace, well out of trouble. At the three-quarter-mile mark Correlation was fifth, Fisherman sixth, both saving strength for the homestretch move. Both made the move together rounding the final turn. At that stage Willie gave the California colt just one crack with his bat. "When I hit him," said Willie afterward, "he took...
...Jamaica, N.Y., C. V. Whitney's brown colt Fisherman, Hedley Woodhouse up, splashed to an easy win in the $30,000 Gotham Stakes...
...Jamaica, N.Y., a rangy bay colt named Errard King galloped his way to earnest consideration as a Kentucky Derby candidate by winning the six-furlong Experimental Free Handicap No. 1, first of the classic trials for three-year-olds, in the record Experimental time...