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...Kentucky Derby Winner Needles was closing fast down the short stretch of Maryland's Pimlico race track, but Calumet Farm's Fabius had enough left to hold off the favorite. When the furlongs faded out, Fabius was winner of the $132,800 Preakness by a length and three-quarters...
...Needles-and at the start it was sorry. In the first fast dash past the grandstand, Needles was 16th in a field of 17. Jockey Dave Erb was as worried as his backers. Needles had let loose his bit, seemed uninterested in running. Up front, Calumet Farm's Fabius and Rex Ells worth's Terrang dueled for the lead...
Down the back stretch, Needles was still lost in the pack while Fabius, a speed horse, was opening a great gap on the fast track. The chalk players could barely see through their tears. But Jockey Erb did not get flustered. His mount was moving nicely and he saved ground, waited until they reached the stretch turn before he asked the big question. Then, for a terrible second, Needles seemed to spit the bit out once more. Erb cracked the whip in his ear to get his mind on his work. Needles got the idea...
Head & Head. Terrang had folded, but Fabius was still far in front. Now Needles got his big break. As horses came back to him in the stretch, the field spread out before him and he had all the running room he needed. His late speed was astonishing. He rushed up to Fabius who held on gamely, head and head, for a few strides and then faded. Needles whisked under the wire, winner by three-quarters of a length in the richest ($123,450) Kentucky Derby ever...
...story, a sort of musical cutoff on The Road to Rome, by Playwright Robert Sherwood, is an amiable bit of pig Latin. Esther is cast as Amytis, betrothed of Fabius Cunctator (George Sanders), the Roman dictator, in 216 B.C. But Esther is bored. Then all at once Hannibal (Howard Keel) crushes the Roman legions and marches on the city. "Ah," cries Esther, "wotta day!" She sneaks out to meet the enemy on her own terms. Hannibal orders her put to death. Esther takes off her cloak. He orders her put to bed. The tactical problems she presents are so engrossing...