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White-haired Mrs. Samuel D. Riddle, wife of Philadelphia's 76-year-old turfman, has a sentimental custom: when Trainer George Conway thinks there is an especially promising race horse in her husband's stable, she knits him a woolen pommel cloth. Knitted pommel cloths went to Crusader, Scapa Flow, War Glory. Most famed horse that got one was their sire, Man o' War. Latest beneficiary of Mrs. Riddle's knitting needles is another one of Man o' War's sons, an undersized three-year-old named War Admiral. Last week, War Admiral made...
...almost two lengths ahead. Pompoon was second, eight lengths ahead of Mrs. Ethel Mars's Reaping Reward who nosed out the rest of the field for third place. To War Admiral's owner went a prize of $52,050. Ill in Philadelphia, he was represented by Trainer Conway, who accepted the gold cup from Kentucky's Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler...
...Trainer Conway, last week's victory was the reward of an extraordinary campaign of which the purpose was not so much to turn War Admiral into the best race horse in the U. S. as to turn him into a horse healthy and hale enough to race at all. As a two-year-old, War Admiral last year won three races, finished second twice, third once. Offsetting his speed and good blood he had one dangerous defect: he was delicate. Last winter, instead of growing as a two-year-old should, he showed signs of remaining the same size...
...With Conway came others involuntarily--a palcontologist, a consumptive female, a rough public utilities swindler, and Conway's weak worldly brother. All except the last are won over to the Utopia. In the wink of an eye the blonde seems to lose her consumption and her hard shell; similarly, the other two relax into a happy existence. Conway himself sees a dream come true...
...this suggests that Hilton's characters are symbols, that the whole idea is an allegory. Conway may be the intelligent person who arrives through a philosophy of moderation and kindness at carthly happiness. His brother may represent the many who balk at progress, who disbelieve all doctrines that are new or that they cannot understand. The men who drink the toast in the end may be the majority who all have faith in some Utopia but have not yet seen...