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...Smith's care, the onetime selling plater finished out of the money only four times in 42 starts. Then, as the crowning achievement of a storybook career, the patched-up cripple, after a year's retirement, came back last March to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, won it in the record- breaking time of 2 min., 1⅓ sec., and boosted his lifetime winnings to $437,730, highest in turf history...
...dashes, Sophomore Doug Pirnie has played the stellar role. He won the 50-yard handicap in the Millrose meet in 5.5, and placed second in the Army meet. Charley Smith and Bill Trainor are both dangerous men, and will doubtless figure in the two meets...
...John Shattuck was third. Crimson sprinters Charley Smith and Doug Pirnie were slow in getting off their marks in the 60-yard dash and did not do as well as expected. Pirnie managed to pull up to second at the finish, but Smith had too much of a handicap from the start to get in the money...
...Harvard Ski team wound up a rather disappointing weekend yesterday with the running of the giant slalom down the Cannon mountain trail in Franconia, in which Sel Hannah of the Franconia S. C. overcame the handicap of a recent appendix operation to win over a field of 62 racers...
Seven years ago horse racing was a summer sport. But since the opening of California's Santa Anita Park and its $100,000 Handicap, winter racing has attracted all the top-notch U. S. stables, most of their top-notch thoroughbreds. Santa Anita's opening, on the Saturday after Christmas, has become as red-letter a date on the U. S. racing calendar as the opening of Belmont, Pimlico or Saratoga. Santa Anita, despite its rich purses, has not had the winter field to itself. Florida's Hialeah Park, with its $50,000 Widener Cup race, gets...