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...More Time. Down Churchill Downs' long (1,2341 ft.) stretch the horses pounded. On the outside, Hill Rise was ranging up fast. At the furlong pole, just ⅛ mi. from the wire, the Dancer still led by two lengths. Whipping furiously, Shoemaker closed the gap. With 50 ft. to go, Hill Rise's nose was even with the Dancer's tail. Two more strides, and he was 1 length behind. Another stride-but there was no more time. The two horses swept past the wire, with Northern Dancer in front by a neck. Track stewards called...
...drive from behind to win. Four years ago, in 112 racing days, Baeza won 309 races in Panama. One happy owner sent him on a paid vacation to Florida. At Hialeah Park he met Florida Builder Fred Hooper, who let Baeza breeze one of his horses through a four-furlong workout. "What was your time?" asked Hooper when it was over. "Forty-nine." said Baeza. Hooper checked his stop watch: it showed 49½ sec. "You've got a job," he said. One out of Three. Few jockeys
...supplementary nominee for the $347,000 Washington-Arlington Futurity, in which he would face the best two-years-old in the nation, Never Bend. Candy Spots stumbled at the start of the race; as Never Bend moved toward the lead at the half-mile of the seven-furlong event, Candy Spots was still 7 1/2 lengths behind. But the son of Swaps began moving at a torrid pace, overhauled Never Bend in the final strides, and won by half a length...
...Brooks, 41, "the psychiatrist," and swear that he talks to his horses. If he does-and Brooks does not deny it-he speaks the right language. Last week, at Florida's Gulfstream Park, he rode Johnsal, a three-year-old colt, to victory in a $3,000, six-furlong sprint. For Johnsal, it was win No. 1 in a year of trying. For Brooks, it was win No. 4,000, in 25 years of succeeding. Only Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro, Willie Shoemaker and Britain's Sir Gordon Richards have won more races...
...Star handed the great Native Dancer the only defeat of his career in the 1953 Kentucky Derby: a sweep of Belmont Park's opening-week Cowdin and Lawrence Realization stakes. Guggenheim's speedy two-year-old Never Bend swept to a three-length triumph in the seven-furlong Cowdin, and his three-year-old Battle Joined came home in front by two lengths in the 1⅝-mile Lawrence. Prosperous Cain Hoy's winnings for the week...