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...Kentucky Derby leading every step of the way. But Jockey Don Brumfield kept insisting that wasn't Kauai King's natural way of running. In winning seven of twelve previous races, the dark bay, three-year-old colt had come from behind every time. In the Preakness last week at Pimlico, under Brumfield's sure rein, Kauai King reverted to his old ways. The result was even more impressive than at Churchill Downs...
Playing Little League, Pony League, Colt League and high school baseball in Pittsburgh, McDowell had thrown 40 no-hitters by the time he was 17. One day in 1960, he pitched Central Catholic High School to a 4-3 victory over South Hills Catholic High-collecting 18 strikeouts, batting a game-winning home run-and 20 big-league scouts posed for a group photograph in the stands. Sam signed with Cleveland for $77,000, spent five uneventful years bouncing back and forth between the minors and the Indians-uneventful except for his 41st and 42nd no-hitters against Spokane Indians...
...Grass Stakes, just one furlong short of the Derby distance. Though he had a slight infection in his left front hoof, the mere mention of his name was enough to reduce the field to two other horses: Rehabilitate, an also-runner, and Abe's Hope, a hard-luck colt who won the Florida Derby last month only to have the victory wiped out by a foul...
There was something of the leaping lamb and the bounding colt in Christopher that first year. Not only did he hurdle car hoods (including a slow-moving cab one time in the Square), but he also leaped over whole rows of parking meting. On the way to dinner in the Union, regularly did a bow-legged straddle hop ever the chest-high obelisk in front Boylston Hall...
...shot that had not won a race this year, Williamston Kid actually finished second, a neck behind Abe's Hope. But after 15 minutes of studying patrol films, the stewards disqualified Abe's Hope for interfering with another horse, and lucky bettors with tickets on the bay colt collected $183.60 for every...