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Broker's Tip's jockey was Don Meade of California. With spur and whip, he got his horse up to Charley 0 and passed him, went for a narrow opening between Head Play and the rail. For a few moments in the last furlong of the mile and a quarter distance the crowd saw the two of them locked together at close quarters, their jockeys' boots rubbing. As they reached the finish still jammed together at the rail, in the immense uproar of a crowd that wanted the Bradley horse to win, Broker...
...fell at the last fence and then came one of the weirdest finishes in Grand National History. Kellsboro Jack, owned by Mrs. Frederick Ambrose Clark of Westbury (L. I.) and Cooperstown, N. Y. galloped strongly on to win, three lengths ahead of Really True who, owned by Major Noel Furlong and ridden by his son, beat out Slater by a neck for second place. First across the line, a length ahead of Kellsboro Jack, was a riderless horse named Apostasy. Apostasy's and Heartbreak Hill's jockeys crossed the finish together last of all, both riding Dusty Foot...
...brisk wind was at their heads as the 2-year-olds thundered out of Joseph E. Widener's famed chute onto the 6¾-furlong straightaway. Though Mr. Widener built his straightaway so that there would be no crowding at the first turn, all horses learn to make for the rail on the left in their normal racing.* Last week's Futurity was no exception. There was considerable crowding to the left for the first half of the distance. And in the last stretch it was not Ladysman but a 30-1 shot, Kerry Patch, a rank outsider...
...Morton L. Schwartz's Gusto, three-year-old grandson of Man o' War: the American Derby, at Washington Park, Ill.; at odds of 9 to 1; coming from behind in the last furlong to beat Osculator, the favorite, by two and one half lengths...
...efficient fashion, sleek and dignified, while the other horses pranced and sidled. When the race started, Orwell, still sleek and dignified, was less efficient. He stayed in the bunch behind the leaders while first Cockpen, then Lord Derby's Portofino. then Dastur took the lead. With a furlong and a half to go, Dastur was still ahead with Miracle running second and April the Fifth third. In black & pink, Jockey Fred Lane on the Walls horse and Jockey Wragg, riding Miracle, challenged at the same time. For an instant, the three horses were running head to head...