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...history), the then seven-year-old had earned the right to grow old in comfort. Instead, Armed perked up with the rest cure; his ankle bothered him hardly at all. Last week, to a sentimental flurry of applause from the crowd, the old champ jogged to the post at Hialeah Park for a comeback...
...galloped. Some said he was wind-broken. Actually, the weird, snoring noises were a hangover from a throat ailment that once caused him to keel over during a workout, and that kept him from racing as a two-year-old. Now, the noises were gone. Last winter at Hialeah Park, when he ran his first race, Coaltown won with ridiculous ease. Next time out, Coaltown equaled Hialeah Park's six-furlong track record with a breathtaking 1:09 3/5. The question was: could he go the grueling (1¼ mile) Derby distance...
After that Max and Assault retired to the peace & quiet of a training track at Columbia, S.C., to lick Max's wounds and heal Assault's gimpy leg. Two weeks ago, Max and his horse turned up at Florida's Hialeah Park. Max had blood in his eye: this time he would beat "that horse." The Widener Handicap was billed as the horse-race-of-the-year: a contest between the second biggest money-winner of all time (Armed) and the third biggest (Assault...
...place by Jockey Eddie Arcaro. Armed, under wraps too, was several lengths ahead of him, in sixth place. Nobody paid much attention to the other seven horses in the race. When Assault made his move, Armed began to move also-and the biggest crowd that had ever squeezed into Hialeah Park (34,394 people) let out a roar. Max's binoculars trembled as he watched five horses (Armed and Assault among them) charge into the stretch fighting for the lead. A few moments later a startled hush settled down over 34,394 people...
...night to sleep on floors, when hackies made $300 a week. $30-a-day hotel rooms were going for $8. Merchants were marking down such items as $300 watches to $165, and case lots of Old Crow from $83.88 to $75.49. In eleven days of horseplay at Hialeah, only $9,500,000 was bet, a $2,600,000 drop compared with the same period last year. Receipts were off, too, at the dog tracks...