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...Pinkerton men waited until Jockey Eddie Arcaro had ridden C. V. Whitney's filly, First Flight, down the six-furlong straightaway in a near-record 1:08 3/5. Then one of the agents stepped up to Baldy. "How would you like to talk to Mr. O'Grady at the Pinkerton Agency?" Blurted Baldy in hurt indignation: "Pinkerton? O'Grady? What am I? A bookmaker?" But he was not indignant enough to want to meet O'Grady-he vanished through the nearest gate...
Baking Powder Magic. This week at Pimlico, on the fringe of Baltimore, he will be boosted up on Citation, the same long-barreled bay colt he won with at Louisville, and shoot for the Preakness. The race will be half a furlong shorter than the Derby, a difference that favors Citation's chief rival, a stablemate named Coaltown...
...keel over during a workout, and that kept him from racing as a two-year-old. Now, the noises were gone. Last winter at Hialeah Park, when he ran his first race, Coaltown won with ridiculous ease. Next time out, Coaltown equaled Hialeah Park's six-furlong track record with a breathtaking 1:09 3/5. The question was: could he go the grueling (1¼ mile) Derby distance...
...native state), but he won the Belmont by 20 lengths. One good horse, John P. Grier, made Red extend himself one day at Aqueduct, and nobody who saw the race will ever forget it. The pair of them ran nose-&-nose, breaking world's records at every furlong pole along the way (the five furlongs in 157 2/5, the six furlongs in 1:09, the mile in 1:35 3/5, the mile and one-eighth in 1:49 1/5). When John P. Grier stuck his neck in front of Big Red in the stretch, a murmur of amazement came...
HOOP RACE--Purse, one hundred added; for senior maidens: one furlong. Start, jumbled; won, driving: place, faltering. Post 7:15 Winner, blond, by Sheer Drive out of Desperation. Trainer Mac Horton...