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...author of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms; he had a tough and masculine image to live up to. He harpooned a 50-ft. sperm whale off the coast of Cuba, and he also clumsily managed to shoot him self through both calves with a .22 Colt automatic. He was doing his writing at Key West in those days, and "to discourage visitors while he is at work your correspondent has hired an aged Negro who appears to be the victim of an odd disease resembling leprosy who meets visitors at the gate and says, Tse about...
...homestretch, said Ussery, "I hit him three or four times." With a burst, Proud Clarion drove between Damascus and Diplomat Way, past Barbs Delight, and raced on to win by a length. Afterward, Trainer Gentry allowed as how Proud Clarion had been improving so fast that he thought the colt might be a sleeper. He still sounded like the most surprised man in Kentucky. "Just think," he said, "a month ago I was just coming up to the Derby with a horse that hadn't even won a race...
...Sword Dancer colt, winner of six of eight races, including a smashing six-length triumph in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, looms the strongest favorite for the Spring Classic since Ridan in 1961. Post-time odds will probably be about...
...Isby, the outsider of these three, is a late-developing Californian colt with a good recent second to Ruken. He has the capable riding services of four-time Derby winner Bill Hartack...
...other half dozen or so starters will be extreme longshots. The guess is here is that if anyone is going to beat Damascus, it will be Successor. This powerful colt has had an excuse for each of his poor showings...