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Though a Harvard education could at time be a handicap ("It had cultivated my taste and appreciation of good things far beyond my ability to provide," writes James M. Barnes) it had for the most part been worth the trouble. Few members had heeded the prophetic Baccalaureate speech in which President Lowell asked "Do we want it (America) to be merely big, prosperous, and comfortable or do we want to have it great in purpose and in moral stature?" Instead the recent years of the depression class of 1929 fit in aptly with Stewart Boal's brief biography: "Very pleasant...
...training track and snorted home with no sign of pain. Relieved, Winfrey began to step up the Dancer's training, but after a three-furlong breeze, the Big Grey came back in such distress that Owner Vanderbilt promptly withdrew him from this week's Suburban Handicap...
...September 1953 Trainer Winfrey detected some soreness in the Dancer's left forefoot and a limp in his walk. It was a stone bruise. The Dancer was retired for the rest of the-year. Tom Fool, a fabulous four-year-old, won New York's three big handicap races (the Metropolitan, Suburban and Brooklyn). Horsemen who had hoped to see Tom Fool and Native Dancer in the same race were disappointed...
...handily and, to the surprise of no one, was assigned the highest weight for his first handicap race?the Metropolitan. A pleasantly unswervable gentleman named John Blanks Campbell, veteran of 49 years at the tracks, enjoys the "dictatorial power to estimate the talents of horses at most of the big eastern race tracks and thereupon to garland each with an amount of weight theoretically calculated to make all the horses in a handicap race cross the finish line simultaneously. The idea for the Metropolitan was that Native Dancer should carry 130** and the next closest horse?Straight Face?should carry...
...forefoot, apparently during training. His shoes were pulled off to give him a rest. If all goes well, the Big Grey will try to do it again over a longer distance (1¼ miles) with as much or more of a weight spread in the $50,000 Memorial Day Suburban Handicap. After that, Alfred Vanderbilt can choose to race the horse under a whopping impost (possibly in the 140-lb. area) in the Brooklyn Handicap, or take him West...