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...Olympia was still there at the end of the seven-furlong race. But in the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby, at a mile and an eighth, he weakened in the stretch and finished second to Old Rockport, an unsung outsider. Flown back to Florida, Olympia won the $50,000 Flamingo Stakes (at a mile and an eighth), then headed for New York. A rugged, unemotional colt, Olympia seemed to thrive on traveling...
...Iron-grey, Argentine-bred Talon charged from last place to first to nose out On Trust in California's $102,500 Santa An ita Handicap, the world's richest race. In Florida's Flamingo Stakes, the horse that is supposed to have the inside track on the 1948 Kentucky Derby - Citation -romped home by six lengths in near track-record time...
...gang war for control of a news service to bookies; it was tied up with a West Coast shipping strike; it was war over distribution of a certain brand of Scotch whiskey; it was "The Syndicate," roiled over Bugsy's losses as manager of its $6,000,000 Flamingo Club at Las Vegas. To some confused readers it seemed that there must have been a lot of people standing outside the rose-trellised window that night, contending for the privilege of drawing a bead on Bugsy...
...years were good to him. He cornered the $500,000-a-day California bookie business, set up a "milk run" smuggling Mexican heroin into California. In 1946 he opened the swanky $6,000,000 Flamingo Club in Las Vegas. He made the acquaintance of sultry, dark-haired Virginia Hill, 30, who was famed for parties that dazzled even Hollywood. The story was that thrice-married Virginia had a Brooklyn patron, a gang overlord who paid her handsomely to stay out of New York. Bugsy moved his shoes and suits over to Virginia's house...
...lately things had begun to go sour. The Flamingo lost money. From New York headquarters, the boys arrived to talk to Bugsy. A couple of hoods were cut down in the old '20s gangland style. Competition was increasing. The underworld was migrating eagerly into Southern California...