Word: colts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there was Perpetual, owned and driven by foxy Doc Parshall, the Earl Sande of the sulky circuit. Perpetual, no great shakes as a two-year-old, had won three big stake races this summer (the Matron, the National and the Historic). But Doc's colt had recently come down with a fever, was seen stepping around the track wearing a jowl strap only an hour before the Big Race...
...crowd put their dollars down on Bill Gallon, a brown colt owned by a comparative newcomer to harness racing, Cottonman R. Horace Johnston of Charlotte, N.C. Bill Gallon, named after one of Johnston's cronies, was purchased as a yearling for $1,800, was top money-winner ($14,000) among the two-year-olds last year. This summer, the Southern colt had failed to win a race on the Grand Circuit. Nevertheless, the wise men of Goshen, with no Racing Form to guide them, figured that Bill Gallon was the horse to beat...
After the first heat, they kicked themselves. With 20-odd Johnston kinfolk cheering from a front-row box, the Johnston colt got hopelessly out of step. Driver Lee Smith, an oldtimer on minor-league tracks but a newcomer to the Hambletonian, failed to get a good start, finished an embarrassing sixth...
...Again, a two-year-old colt from the stable of Warren Wright, owner of Whirlaway: the rich Arlington Futurity, first of the season's classic races for juveniles; defeating two of his stablemates, Some Chance and Wishbone, by two and six lengths respectively; before a crowd of 30,000; at Chicago's Arlington Park. Of the $48,750 purse, Owner Wright pocketed $47,250-a rare clean sweep, in a major U.S. stake race, of first, second and third-place money. Fourth ($1,500) went to Hal Price Headley's Anticlimax...
...peace, Gus Swebilius went on working in gun laboratories and factories, in 1926 founded High Standard (to make sporting rifles, pistols). Last fall, the British wanted quick production of a .50-caliber Browning to mount in fighters (eight per British plane). Because Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Co. at Hartford was bogged in other orders, High Standard got a license to make the British guns...