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...also said that in his original plan that all except those suffering from severe physical handicap should find a place in government service is "for the moment, at least, impracticable." The present bill lowers physical requirements part of the way, he pointed...
...Havre de Grace, the late Sam Riddle used to say, that Man o' War ran his greatest race. That was in 1920, when Riddle's Big Red, carrying the heaviest weight he had ever been made to carry (138 Ibs.), ran away with the Potomac Handicap in his usual styleand set a new track record for the mile-and-a-sixteenth while he was about it. Man o' War was in his heyday that year, and so was Havre de Grace. Halfway between Philadelphia and Washington, "the Graw"* drew crowds from 100 miles or more...
...Arcadia, Calif., favored Your Host, to Moonrush (and the rest of the field) in the $50,000 San Pasqual Handicap, when Your Host piled into another horse, fell, broke four small bones in his right front leg, apparently ended his racing career...
Which two-year-old of 1950 is most likely to succeed as a three-year-old? This week, announcing weights for next spring's Experimental Free Handicap, Jockey Club Handicapper John B. Campbell gave his weighty opinion. At the top of Campbell's list (with 126 Ibs.) stood Pennsylvania-bred Uncle Miltie,† winner of the Champagne and Wakefield Stakes. Other top weights: Belmont Futurity Winner Battlefield and Pimlico Futurity Winner Big Stretch (each 124 Ibs.), To Market (121 Ibs.), Battle Morn...
...with the natives so that he may expiate an old sin. Even the cast of characters seems to have escaped from the rolls of an old jungle thriller: a gigantic U.S. Negro, wanted for murder, who has found a dignified life in a country where his color is no handicap; an old white adventurer who has gone native but still clings to his dream of El Dorado; the big-company man of purpose; the noble young savage...