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...Muralist Orozco has two arms-but only one hand. When he was 15, he lost his left hand while playing with some gunpowder. He says: "It has never been a handicap...
...Grand American Handicap, the World Series of trapshooting, there are no favorites, for no champion has ever succeeded in repeating. One morning last week, competing in his first Grand American, a Wisconsin high-school boy in overalls and shooting jacket "went straight" for the first 68 clay birds, muffed the 69th, finished out his 100 shots without another miss. Then curly-haired Jimmy Rasmussen, 17, went back to his job as scorekeeper for other contestants, to help pay his way to the meet at Vandalia, Ohio...
Trainer Jimmy Jones was not as cocksure about Citation's chances as everybody else seemed to be. It was the Triple Crown winner's first major start since he pulled a muscle two weeks after the Stars & Stripes Handicap (TIME, July 19), and Trainer Jones figured that Citation was still "ten days away from his best race." The morning of the Derby, Jones warned Jockey Eddie Arcaro: "Watch out for Papa Redbird," the horse that had just won the Arlington Classic. To be on the safe side, Jones entered another Calumet horse, Free America, a big, flashy...
...Saratoga Handicap...
...race and gets deathly sick. The others nodded understandingly. All of them got sick too, some before a race and some afterwards. It was the terrible "keying up" process that track champions must go through. Since it helps them win, most of them consider it a blessing, not a handicap...