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...Missouri farm that the President had once tilled. "My boy's a girl," said the President. "Of course, I wouldn't trade her for any two boys, but I wish I had some. These boys are good farmers and they have that sort of reputation. The only handicap they have is that their uncle is President of the United States . . . you know what a terrible handicap that is to a family...
...Belmont Park and drank a silent toast to himself. Five months before, John Blanks Campbell had closed the office door, sat down with his file of last year's two-year-olds and decided that Middleground would be the three-year-old to beat. In his Experimental Free Handicap weights, he rated Middleground at the top with 126 lbs., about a length better than Hill Prince...
Poring over performance charts some 60 hours a week, Campbell assigns the weights for 40-odd stake races, and about 80 overnight handicaps-in addition to writing the condition books (i.e., the daily racing programs)-for the four New York tracks. On the basic principle that three pounds of weight equals one length in a mile race (with due allowance for individual horses' ability to carry weight) his figures aim to produce dead heats or at least photo-finishes in every handicap race...
Actually, of course, it never works out quite that way. But when luck is with him, Handicapper Campbell has had some spectacular moments. The biggest: in the Carter Handicap at Aqueduct in 1944, when he put 127 pounds on Bossuet, 118 on Wait-a-Bit, 115 on Brownie, saw them finish in a triple dead heat, the first in U.S. handicap racing history...
...despite the handicap, the freshmen have still been able to develop into a cohesive unit, though Whitney has had to work with many players who had never played in anything but intra-mural competition...