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...Picking a good horse," insists Stanley Dancer, 40, "is like picking a good girl friend. You look for soundness of legs and stance, broad chest and rear end, good shoulders and ears." Chacun a son gout, but as long as he sticks to picking horses Dancer (not to be confused with such animal namesakes...
...Native Dancer and Dancer's Image) is welcome to his choice. As the most successful trainer and driver in U.S. harness racing, he has won $1,000,000 or more in purses during each of the past four seasons, and in the process produced a steady succession of champions: Su Mac Lad was 1962's Horse of the Year; Cardigan Bay, the wealthiest harness horse ever ($980,000 since 1959); Noble Victory, the two-year-old champion of 1965 and winner of 37 out of 54 races...
...Dancer's choicest champ is Nevele Pride, a three-year-old trotter* who is hooked on hot dogs, beer and cigarettes (he does not smoke them; he eats them). Despite those hang-ups, Dancer calls him "the best trotter I've ever driven." Last week at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway, Dancer drove Nevele Pride to his 30th and richest victory in 33 starts in the $166,746 Dexter...
Wide Swath, by Sword Dancer-Waddle...
...Stumbling Block), Age of Consent (by My Request-Novice) and Social Outcast (by Shut Out-Pansy). And when Vanderbilt in 1949 bred a stallion named Polynesian to a mare named Geisha, he came up with a name that will be remembered as long as horse races are run: Native Dancer. Trying as always to combine ancestry and euphony, Vanderbilt has concocted the following names for his current crop of two-year-olds...