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...Still scorning records and running simply to win. Ron scored his double victory for the second year in a row, took the team title for Villanova by just 2⅓ points over Manhattan. ¶Going down the stretch in a wild scramble to win Hialeah's $135,000 Flamingo Stakes, Jockey Manuel Ycaza whipped at his bay mount. Jewel's Reward, with understandable zeal. But Jewel's Reward flinched from the lefthanded slashing, carried wide and collided with Calumet's fast-closing Tim Tarn. And when Tim Tam, with Champion Willie Hartack aboard, was nosed...
...moved swiftly. She mobilized her five servants, overnight loaded two rented moving vans with furniture and a third with the cocker spaniels. Next morning, putting the doctors off with the excuse that she first had "to drive some friends to the airport," Margaret got behind the wheel of her flamingo-hued, air-conditroned 1957 Lincoln Capri, put Sheila Joy behind her in a white-and-brown Mercury station wagon, and led the bizarre caravan highballing out of Atlanta...
...Coaxed on by the cunning hands of Jockey Eddie Arcaro, Bold Ruler of the Wheatley. Stables barely outnosed Calumet Farms' Gen. Duke to take the $131,400 Flamingo Stakes at Miami's Hialeah. Across the continent at California's Santa Anita Park, Jockey Johnny Longden, 47, who has won more races than any other rider past or present, booted home his 5,000th winner, genially shrugged off questions about retirement...
...Moving up from 14th place in a field of 15, Florida-bred Needles threaded neatly through openings on the second turn, swung wide to come around horses and win the $148,800 Flamingo Stakes at Florida's Hialeah race track by 2¾ lengths from the 24-10-1 long shot, Golf Ace. Given a five-pound weight advantage simply for running on a home-state track, the son of 1951 Kentucky Derby Winner Ponder was still impressive enough to become a front-runner in the winter book for this year's Kentucky Derby...
...National Women's Tennis Champion Doris Hart, 30, announced last week that she would turn professional to take a job as a tennis teacher at the Flamingo Hotel in Miami Beach. Said Champion Hart: "I'm tired of traveling, and I want to give the younger players the kind of help I never...