Word: goetze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sprinter, the favorite at post time, ran out of gas after leading for a mile, and finished ninth. But after that, he seldom ran out of the money. Your Host came back to beat such horses as Hill Prince and Ponder, had earned $384,795 for Movieman-Owner William Goetz when he broke an elbow bone in a spill at Santa Anita early this year...
...Owner Goetz kept hoping the vets could save Your Host, even though the injury was almost impossible to treat. But the chestnut colt, hobbling painfully about his stall on three legs (his right foreleg swollen and foreshortened), grew steadily worse. Last week, after the veterinarians agreed that there was nothing more to be done, Your Host was condemned...
...Inglewood, Calif., William Goetz's Your Host over Calumet Farm's Ponder (by a nose) and Horse-of-the-Year Hill Prince (by another neck) in the $35,000 Thanksgiving Day Handicap, at a mile-and-a-sixteenth...
Last week Owner Goetz, vindicated by the T-men, had the picture back in his possession, and back in a place of honor on his library wall in Los Angeles...
...accepted the challenge and applied finecomb methods of their own. First they determined that the paint was at least 60 years old. That was a major point for Goetz since it dated the painting from the days when the artist was alive, unknown, and of no interest to fakers or collectors either. Moreover, graphology experts ruled that the writing on the canvas was Van Gogh's-he formed his Vs, Ts and eights in peculiar ways that forgers could easily not have noticed. Finally, the T-men traced a mark of ownership on the back of the picture...