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Excitement is rather thin this year in the horse racing world. There are no handicap stars to speak of since the retirement of Dr. Fager last fall. The two year old ranks have produced to juvenile of outstanding speed...
...Every thoroughbred champion wor thy of the name ought to prove him self carrying weight," says Veteran Trainer Johnny Nerud. And by that measure there has never been a horse to equal Nerud's own Dr. Fager. At New York's Aqueduct race track last week, the four-year-old bay lugged...
Millionaire at Four. Named for the Boston neurosurgeon who once saved Nerud's life, Dr. Fager was beaten by only two horses in his three-year career. Successor nipped him two years ago in the Champagne Stakes. Damascus, Horse of the Year in 1967, beat him twice - with the aid of a "rabbit" (pacesetter) named Hedevar. In their two other matches, Hedevar was stabled, and Dr. Fager whipped Damascus handily. Dr. Pager's other defeat was in last year's Jersey Derby, which he won by 61 lengths only to be dis qualified because Jockey Manuel Ycaza...
Aside from those races, the big bay has had it all his own way. He won his first four starts in 1966 as a two-year-old, swept six in one stretch in 1967. This year Dr. Fager has raced only in stakes events, romped to victory in such prestigious handicaps as Aqueduct's $108,000 Suburban, Saratoga's $53,500 Whitney and Chicago's $100,000 Washington Park, in which he set a new world record of 1 min. 32 1/5 sec. for the mile...
...Woodward Stakes at New York's Aqueduct race track to convince the few remaining doubters that Mrs. Edith Bancroft's Damascus is 1967's top three-year-old. That became abundantly clear when Damascus flashed under the wire a good 10½lengths ahead of Dr. Fager, who beat him in the Gotham Stakes this April. And that was the least of the triumphs. In their first meeting at the Woodward, Damascus put a quick end to all speculation about whether he was a better-or at least sounder-horse than Ogden Phipps's four-year...