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...Excuses Needed Before Pimlico's 75th anniversary Preakness† last week, Brookmeade Stable's Trainer Preston Burch was feeling pretty chipper. Burch was not only 1950's leading money winner, but he also had a sharp brown colt named Bold running for the second star in racing's triple crown. Burch confidently announced that Bold was "as fit as can be, and will have no excuses if beaten...
Knowing that his colt was bred to stay, and hoping to prove his Derby caliber, Rutchick winter-raced the Count in Florida, where he ran in good company but without much success. As a builder-upper, Rutchick supplemented the colt's hay and oats with a daily quota of four ounces of imported Italian olive oil ("for plenty of vitamins"). The Count laps...
...fact that he practically trains himself, had apparently reached his peak a month too soon, and had run a disappointing eighth against much the same field the previous week, UNCLE MIL TIE, was backed into even-money favoritism. Neglected at 13-to-2 was REPETOIRE, a game chestnut colt with a misspelled name who was not bred to run very far, but has managed to win all four of his 1951 starts...
...This week UNCLE MILTIE'S owner began to suspect that a rest might do the colt more good than a trip to Kentucky...
With Battlefield and Big Stretch unwilling to try again against the horse that had beaten them in a six-furlong conditioner five days before, the Colando colt seemed to be a cinch. But the mile-and-a-sixteenth Experimental was an entirely different matter. Starting in the outside post position, and carrying top weight of 126 Ibs., he never made it a race. Uncle Miltie finished eighth, five lengths (i.e., 4½ & a nose & a head) behind the winner, King Ranch's Sonic, which carried only a feathery 105 Ibs. The time...