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...Khan's Tulyar, the 176th running of the St. Leger, second of Great Britain's classic races for three-year-olds; at Doncaster. Winner of the Derby at Epsom Downs, and of all his seven starts this season, the brown colt added $44,577 to his winnings, bringing his total...
...Party-line news, London's Communist Daily Worker often gives out tips on horse racing. Last week the paper figured out a way to put even the horses to work for the party. After the Worker's handicapper picked Tulyar, the 11-2-shot winner of the Epsom Downs Derby (see NEWS IN PICTURES), the paper blandly asked readers to fork over part of their winnings for an emergency: the Worker needs $6,921 to pay its bills. Said a front-page editorial: Readers can show their "appreciation" for the tip on Tulyar "by organizing collections...
...Khan's Tulyar, the 173rd and richest ($57,335) Epsom Derby. It was the Aga's fifth Derby, and a triumph for Britain's two-bob bettors, who favored Tulyar against the London bookies who picked French horses to finish...
With feet, it is sheer physical strain. A campaigner is usually on his feet 12 to 14 hours a day, said Taft, and ends the day with a foot bath of warm Epsom salts. With food, it's the monotony. In the old days it was always chicken. At one time, he recalled wistfully, it was cold roast beef-until the price of beef went too high. Today it's ham-cold or hot, baked or boiled-but almost always ham, "frequently with raisin sauce." (Taft, delayed by a television appearance, missed the Lions' menu: filet mignon...
...lice left him in peace was spent in tussles with the army's standing operating procedure. Sometimes a man lost to S.O.P.-as when Wheeler showed up with sore eyes, and was rigorously dosed before the entire regiment with "three ounces and a half of the bitter gall Epsom salts, and two hours knapsack drill in double quick time [to] open my back door...