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...real pace, just go ahead out there in front and stay in front." The jockey did just that. He never had to use the whip. He gave the big horse his head, and in track-record time Armed (TIME, Feb. 17) ran away with the $50,000 Widener Handicap, Florida's biggest race. Next stop, after a 14-hour plane trip: California and this week's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...
...Movieman L. B. Mayer's favored Stepfather finished first in a mad scramble down the stretch in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Vicente Handicap. Then three rival jockeys complained that Stepfather had fouled them in a bumping bee, and for 16 minutes the judges debated. Their decision: disqualify Stepfather, make second place Hubble Bubble the winner...
...Train raced again. He won-by a few inches. Last week, with 130 Ibs. on his back,† the brown gelding did it again. Neither race was an important one, but they were impressive warm-ups for the winter's big two: the $50,000 Widener Handicap at Hialeah next week and the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap the following week. Armed's toughest competitors, Assault and Stymie, are both taking the winter...
...unanimous choice: he had won by a bare 4-to-3 vote over highly touted Willard E. Goslin, superintendent of the Minneapolis schools, whose main handicap was being an outlander. In two years at Minneapolis, drawling, down-to-earth Willard Goslin had won higher pay for teachers, opened new schools, overhauled the study program, been voted Citizen No. 2 (after Sister Kenny), and attracted national attention. The pro-Goslin New York Herald Tribune, "depressed and disheartened" by Jansen's appointment as superintendent, called it the choice "of the man next in line, the insider who knows the ropes...
...averages was in his favor: old Texas Sandman had never won a major race. The one moment in his life was the time two years ago when he finished second in a big race. Last week his trainer bravely entered him in the $50,000 added San Carlos Handicap, at California's million-dollar Santa Anita track. Among the 17 other horses in the race were Elizabeth Arden's proud Knockdown, and a swift horse named Buzfuz, recently flown in from Miami...