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...victory was Dr. Pager's 18th in 22 starts. It was also his last. After the race, Nerud, who owns 25% of the colt, announced that his champion would be retired to stud at Co-Owner William McKnight's Tartan Farms in Ocala...
...Life Insurance hired Abram T. Collier away from John Hancock as its new president. Gillette lost Stuart Hensley, now chairman of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical. Wayne Hoffman quit New York Central and stepped aboard as chairman of Flying Tiger Line. This week David C. Scott, formerly executive vice president of Colt Industries, takes over as president of ailing Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing...
...youngest of three racing brothers (a fourth drives a bus), Dancer spotted Nevele Pride as a yearling on a Pennsylvania farm in 1966 and purchased the colt for $20,000. Last year the trotter won a record $222,923 and turned in the fastest mile clocking (1 min. 58 2/5 sec.) ever achieved by a juvenile. Dancer is carefully pointing toward the Hambletonian, the U.S.'s most prestigious trotting race, on Aug. 25; hence he has raced the horse only lightly. Even at that, the colt won all four of his starts and $106,886-$83,373 at Roosevelt...
...book with a list of all the foals owned by Mr. Chenery. I decided not to try to name all of them-there were about a hundred. I just picked one, hoping to display the quality of names I could produce. The horse I picked was a colt by Turn To out of Royal Something. I named it Do Something. Either my selection never got to Mr. Chenery or else his taste is bad. He named the damn horse Sir Gaylord. Well, you can see the kind of luck I have. Sir Gaylord went on to win everything in sight...
...folklore, nothing has been more romanticized than guns and the larger-than-life men who wielded them. From the nation's beginnings, in fact and fiction, the gun has been provider and protector. The Pilgrim gained a foothold with his harquebus. A legion of loners won the West with Colt .45 Peacemakers holstered at their hips or Winchester 73 repeaters cradled in their arms...