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From all over the nation, from Sunshine Park, from Gulfstream, and from the waiting stalls at the glue factory, the skim of the nation's horse crop will congregate in little old Rhode Island today in honor of the start of New England's earliest racing season. Lincoln Downs is the name of the track...
...wear a quarter-inch pad of piano felt between hoof and shoe?just in case his feet start stinging. Coaltown, who has more crowd-appeal than Citation, at Florida's Hialeah Park last winter equaled the world record for a mile-and-an-eighth (1 :47 3/5). Then at Gulfstream Park, under a tight hold, he equaled the mile-and-a-quarter record...
...though Calumet Farm's Coaltown has tied the world record for the mile and an eighth, Trainer Ben Jones insists that Coaltown's stablemate, Citation, is better ("He can catch any horse he can see"). Last week, Coaltown proved again just how great Citation must be. At Gulfstream Park, Fla., Coaltown stuck out his long neck and stormed a mile and a quarter in 1:59.8, to tie the world record for that distance too. Other winners...
...crowds (2,600,000 last year) outnumber Florida's horse-race fans. Last week, thousands of Miamians saw the horses run at Gulfstream in the afternoon, then hustled down to the Biscayne Kennel Club to go to the dogs by night. The track sprawled like a giant outdoor roulette wheel, which is about what it is. Chasing after Swifty, the mechanical rabbit that never loses a race, were eight greyhounds clawing and skidding around turns at close to 40 m.p.h.-as fast as a race horse runs. Most fans, who couldn't remember the name...
Lipiec's claiming raids became so fiercely frequent that he replaced Hirsch Jacobs, leading U.S. trainer for eleven of the twelve previous years, as the turf's prime pirate. But since taking up headquarters in Gulfstream's barn F, horse racing's pint-sized pirate has slipped a bit. His claiming score: three acquired, nine lost to other claimers. Size of present stable: 17 head...