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...took the stewards at Louisville's Churchill Downs race track 43 hours of interrogation and deliberation to decide what to do about Peter Fuller's grey colt, who was found to have been drugged when he won the Derby. In the end, the stewards succeeded only in adding to the mystery that surrounds the case. They awarded first place (plus the $122,600 purse) to Calumet Farm's Forward Pass. They suspended the Dancer's trainer, Lou Cavalaris, and his assistant, Robert Barnard, for 30 days. They issued a tight-lipped statement that spoke of "certain...
...there is the ill-starred Dancer's Image. "Tarnished Image," the cynics were dubbing Peter Fuller's colt even before the painful debacle that was Saturday's Preakness Stakes. A half century of Triple Crown racing without a dis-qualification, and the Dancer in his Triple Crown career is now two-for-two, victim twice of bizarre circumstances largely beyond anyone's control...
...Dancer's Image is only a horse, a smallish three-year-old gray colt to whom the Preakness is just another mile and three-sixteenths of punishment to his chronically sore front ankles. And, poetic justice though it might be, he is not likely to give his fans the revenge they are expecting at Pimlico tomorrow...
...grey colt was a son of the great Native Dancer, but he had chronically "mushy" (swollen) ankles, and it seemed he might never get to the races. So Owner Peter Fuller decided to get rid of him. He changed the horse's name from A.T.'s Image (after Fuller's father, former Massachusetts Governor A. T. Fuller) to Dancer's Image, and put him up for auction. The bidding reached $25,000, stopped-and, just as the gavel was about to fall, Fuller had a change of heart. After bidding $26,000 himself, he paid...
That was a year ago. Twice since then, Fuller has come close to selling Dancer's Image-for $500,000 and $1,000,000. Each time he held off. The colt's ankles were still so bad that he had to stand for hours in buckets of ice to reduce the swelling, but he was winning races anyway-the Governor's Gold Cup at Bowie, the Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct. Fuller finally decided to take a big gamble, enter the horse in the Kentucky Derby, and pray that his ankles held up. Last week, with...