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...sulky instead of a saddle strictly by accident. Several years ago, he bought a saddlehorse named Louis Cobb, which had been a trotter. Just for the fun of it, he decided to put him back in a sulky. After four victories, Driver Harrison Hoyt was a wholehearted harness horseman (he even named a hat the Louis Cobb). He began to buy harness horses. At a Harrisburg (Pa.) yearling sale two years ago he paid $2,600 for a bay horse named Demon Hanover and got a bargain...
Married. Mary Elizabeth Altemus ("Liz") Whitney, 42, hell-for-leather socialite horsewoman; and Dr. E. Cooper Person Jr., 38, surgery professor; she for the second time (her first: Millionaire Horseman John Hay-"Jock"- Whitney, now married to Betsey Cushing Roosevelt), he for the first; in Upperville...
...Battista and Ruth Hughes Aarons; music by George Lessner; produced by Lorraine Lester) is passably tuneful and monumentally tedious. Washington Irving's famous yarn of lanky, spindle-necked Ichabod Crane-who was as ill-starred in love as in looks and was chased into immortality by the Headless Horseman-would seem likely material for a musical. It comes equipped with standard light-operatic fixtures: period atmosphere, picturesque locale, broad humor, folkish fantasy; it seems a cinch to wire for dancing and song...
Carroll Shilling, winner of the 1912 Kentucky Derby, and considered by many the most inspired horseman who ever held a pair of reins, has been in & out of sanitariums for alcoholism in recent years. Buddy Ensor, after losing many a bout with the bottle, died last winter in New York City. Laverne Fator, perhaps the iciest jockey who ever rode a horse, killed himself a few years ago. Tod Sloan, who made and squandered over a million dollars, ended up wheedling dimes from street crowds, billed as "the strangest dwarf in the world...
...over the belittling he got. At 15 he was in Agua Caliente, broke and homesick, when he finally won his first race, on a four-year-old maiden named Eagle Bird. Then he drove up to Tanforan, Calif., to take a job with Clarence Davison, a "gypsy" horseman who taught him the ABCs of being a jockey...