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...good start from an outside post position, then let others set the pace. Running outside, the Dancer was a smoothly moving fourth for most of the way. Coming into the stretch, Guerin gave him his head. There was no need to use the whip, though a furlong from the wire, Guerin waved it for a reminder. The Dancer drove home to win by two easy lengths in the fairly good time of 1:44 1/5.* Long a heavy favorite for next month's Kentucky Derby, the undefeated Dancer is scheduled to stretch his legs at a mile...
...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's unbeaten two-year-old colt Native Dancer, his sixth straight win, the 6 ½ furlong. $62,650 Hopeful Stakes, with his patented stretch spurt, to leave Greentree Stable's Tiger Skin two lengths behind; in 1 min. 18 4/5 sec.; at Saratoga...
...Rice's two-year-old Mr. Paradise, the six-furlong, $107,120 Washington Park Futurity, with Jockey Eddie Arcaro racking up his 31st stakes victory of the season, in 1 min. 10 3/5 sec., by 1½ lengths over Mr. Good, for a $79,710 purse; in Chicago...
...Wilson Jr.'s Derby Candidate Gushing Oil, the mile-and-a-furlong $31,150 Blue Grass Stakes, by a length over C. V. Whitney's fast-closing Cold Command, on a sloppy track, in 1:52 2/5; at Lexington...
With Battlefield and Big Stretch unwilling to try again against the horse that had beaten them in a six-furlong conditioner five days before, the Colando colt seemed to be a cinch. But the mile-and-a-sixteenth Experimental was an entirely different matter. Starting in the outside post position, and carrying top weight of 126 Ibs., he never made it a race. Uncle Miltie finished eighth, five lengths (i.e., 4½ & a nose & a head) behind the winner, King Ranch's Sonic, which carried only a feathery 105 Ibs. The time...