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...Jamaica race track last week, Eddie got his answer. The day was drab, chilly, drizzly; the track was sloppy, and only 19,834 fans had turned out to watch the Experimental Free Handicap No. 1, first of the Eastern trials building up to the Derby climax May 6. The race was only six furlongs, and Owner Chenery fretted about Hill Prince's slow starts and his 124-lb. impost. His concern seemed justified when, despite Arcaro's quick whip, Hill Prince was a poor next-to-last at the half-mile post; it seemed improbable that...
...vacation in Rio, Jane rehearses it so convincingly in a deck chair that fellow passengers accept her as the character, who is on the way to unwed motherhood. Coffee Tycoon Barry Sullivan falls under suspicion as the man who did her wrong and is thus under some handicap in wooing Jane's glamorous mother...
Feature attraction on the "off" track is the Inaugural Handicap ($2,500) with New England's adroitest pick-pockets running second best. The three men with the crystal balls at the CRIMSON see 'em this...
Despite his three California losses, the 60,000 racing fans who jammed Santa Anita last week for the $50,000-added San Juan Capistrano Handicap still had faith in Citation. Calumet's scuffed-up wonder horse was being sent to the post carrying 130 Ibs.-two pounds less than the week before when Irish-bred Noor beat him in the Santa Anita Handicap. This time Noor was carrying seven more pounds-117. And the Capistrano, at the unusual distance of a mile and three quarters, was certainly long enough for a test of class...
...Duffy was not letting his latest triumph go to his head. "It worries me, getting up to second place," he said. "If it gives us a sense of complacency, it'll be a real handicap...