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...outstanding two-year-olds of the year, Mrs. Albert Sabath's Alsab, in beating Ben Whitaker's Requested, ran 6½ furlongs in 1 min., 16 sec.-a new Belmont record and just 1/5 of a second under the world mark set by Snark at Hialeah three years...
...week after a winter vacation in Florida, where he hibernates annually in a Spanish villa on Biscayne Bay. There he occasionally visits with Neighbor Ed Kelly, boss-man of Chicago, occasionally drops in at the gambling rooms of the swanky Brook Club, watches the ponies from his box at Hialeah, and freshens up between times with Turkish baths and massages at the ocean-front Roman Pools. Mr. Hague's salary as mayor is $8,000 a year. Other sources of income: unknown...
World's richest horse race is California's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap. Pride of Florida's racing season is her $50,000 Widener Cup race at Hialeah. Since 1938 these two top U. S. handicap events have been run on the same day. The occasion has whetted the pens of the balmy States' weather-racked pressagents-Californians swearing that Florida horses wear overcoats to keep off the cold; Floridians countering with tales of California horses wearing water wings to get through the rain. Last week these fantasies came almost too true to be funny...
...cold at Hialeah that lady railbirds tucked their winter tans into fur coats. Others huddled under blankets, shivered and wished they had stayed home in bed. Runaway breezes whipped the bright costumes of Seminole Indians squatting beneath the palms in the infield, parted the tail feathers of long-legged pink flamingos parading before the stands...
...Hialeah customers who picked the Widener Cup winner didn't win as much as lucky Santa Anitans, but they got a better race for their money. At 16-to-1 ($34.60 for a $2 ticket) Circle M Ranch's Big Pebble, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Moore, socialite ranchers from Sheridan, Wyo., beat his stablemate. Get Off, by a head after tailing the field most of the way. For their owners, the pair won $60,000. Back in fourth place, a very tired horse, was Edward R. Bradley's Bimelech, 1940's three-year...