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...there is the ill-starred Dancer's Image. "Tarnished Image," the cynics were dubbing Peter Fuller's colt even before the painful debacle that was Saturday's Preakness Stakes. A half century of Triple Crown racing without a dis-qualification, and the Dancer in his Triple Crown career is now two-for-two, victim twice of bizarre circumstances largely beyond anyone's control...
...physiological makeup, retained the drug for an extraordinarily long period of time-a tenuous possibility after reports from Kentucky indicated that his urine contained considerably more than a mere trace of the drug. Two other explanations were favored by the horse's owner. Boston Auto Dealer Peter Fuller: 1) urine samples somehow got mixed up during the testing process, or 2) someone not connected with the stable gave Dancer's Image an extra dose of Butazolidin. "Someone," said Fuller darkly, "may have gotten to the horse." He demanded an investigation and promised a "large financial reward" for information...
...Fuller will get his investigation: when they meet at Churchill Downs this week, the stewards will interrogate everyone connected with the case, and decide what penalties, if any, should be meted out. If Trainer Cavalaris is held responsible for the drugging, he could be barred from racing for a time span ranging from a few days to life. Which leaves a big question in the immediate future of Dancer's Image. The horse is scheduled to race this week in the second of the Triple Crown events, the Preakness at Pimlico, Md. If Cavalaris is suspended, said Fuller, Dancer...
That was a year ago. Twice since then, Fuller has come close to selling Dancer's Image-for $500,000 and $1,000,000. Each time he held off. The colt's ankles were still so bad that he had to stand for hours in buckets of ice to reduce the swelling, but he was winning races anyway-the Governor's Gold Cup at Bowie, the Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct. Fuller finally decided to take a big gamble, enter the horse in the Kentucky Derby, and pray that his ankles held up. Last week, with...
...stretch, did Dancer's Image really begin to run. With Jockey Ussery merely clucking to him, he rushed up along the rail, caught Forward Pass at the imi. pole and drew away to win by H lengths. The victory was worth $122,600 to Owner Fuller, 10% of which went to Ussery-who collected a similar prize last year aboard Proud Clarion and is the first jockey in 66 years to win the Derby twice...