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Sired by Ribot and foaled by Galbreath's stakes-winning mare Flower Bowl, Graustark was a big (16 hands), rangy colt bred for endurance rather than speed. But at Illinois' Arlington Park last summer, he showed all kinds of speed-winning a six-furlong maiden race by seven lengths, an allowance sprint by nine, the $54,600 Arch Ward Stakes by six. Then he bucked his shins and retired for the year. "Sometimes," sighed Galbreath, "these things work out for the best...
They do indeed. By last week, thanks to the patient ministrations of Trainer Loyd Gentry, Graustark had emerged as the No. 1 candidate for Florida's $100,000 Flamingo Stakes-and possibly for the Kentucky Derby. The race that did it was the $6,000, six-furlong Grenada Purse at Hialeah. The field included three stakes winners, figured to provide a fair test for a horse that had been out of action for five months...
...iron. She has also had her share of bad racing luck. Last month, in a warmup race for the Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland, Moccasin broke so badly that she was ten lengths behind the field by the time she got untangled. She still won the 6½-furlong race by three lengths, repaying her shaken admirers at the rate of 10? on the dollar-the minimum that Kentucky law allows...
...radicals who predict the disappearance of today's institutional Christianity do so with great equanimity. "I cannot imagine a more enjoyable time to be a Christian," says British Journalist Monica Furlong, herself a convinced Anglican radical. "For while the holocaust is sweeping away much that is beautiful and all that is safe and comfortable and unquestioned, it is relieving us of mounds of Christian bric-a-brac, and the liberation is unspeakable...
...first horse in history to capture both the English and Irish Derbies; in Curragh, Ireland. A 4-7 favorite, the three-year-old colt watched the rest of the field run away at the gate, was third from last in the 19-horse field after the first two furlongs, then easily swept into the lead with a furlong-and-a-half to go. The $149,730 victory brought Santa's winnings to $376,423 this year-and meant a present of $140,000 to each of 24 lucky ticket holders in the worldwide Irish Sweepstakes lottery. >Milton Ernstof...