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...bill for modernization came so high that earnings after taxes were an estimated 5.7% of invested capital, compared with 6.7% a decade ago. While profit totals are running at record highs, the businessman is finding it harder to raise his percentage of profit on sales. Says Du Font's President Lammot du Pont Copeland, 58, a Harvard-educated scion of inherited wealth: "Keener competition may be good for the economy, but it takes its toll in profits...
...budding jockeys, U.S. horsemen more and more are importing riders from south of the border. This season five top U.S. stables-Cain Hoy. Greentree, Bohemia, Fred W. Hooper and Gustave Ring-are employing Latin jockeys. Mexico-bred Milo Valenzuela, 28, is the regular rider for Mrs. Richard du Font's Kelso, three-time Horse of the Year, and for Hirsch Jacobs' Affectionately, top candidate for Filly of the Year. Mexican American Herberto Hinojosa, 26, was the leading jockey (61 wins in 229 tries) at Florida's Tropical Park this winter, won more than...
...Kelso: the $109,750 John B. Campbell Handicap, at Maryland's Bowie Race Course, thus becoming the third-biggest money winner in U.S. racing history (behind Round Table and Nashua). Carrying 131 lbs., Mrs. Richard C. du Font's great gelding rushed from behind to nip Crimson Satan by three-quarters of a length. The victory, Kelso's second in a $100,000-added race within a week, was worth $71,337-pushing his total winnings...
Last night was the beginning of the CRIMSON'S winter competition. Students had the opportunity of visiting the font of literary training where such men as Faulkner, Heming-way, Ellot, Frost, Updike, and John F. Kennedy first published their works...
...Slowed down this season by a leg injury and a virus infection, Kelso-Mrs. Richard C. du Font's five-year-old gelding-won only five races in eleven starts, but still swept the voting for Horse of the Year for an unprecedented third straight year. A great-grandson of Man o' War, Kelso needs only $30,000 more to become the fifth millionaire (others: Round Table, Nashua, Citation, Carry Back) in U.S. racing history...