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...opportunity for swaps and swindles-grows with each additional racing day, making it difficult for harried stewards and security investigators to keep tabs on all thoroughbreds. The growth of exotic betting devices-super-fectas and the like-with their huge payoffs represents an additional impetus to crooked horsemen. Perhaps the only ones within the racing community to benefit from the latest scandal are the bookies. Says one oddsmaker: "It's very good for business. Every tout around is telling guys, 'Hey, listen, I know something about this horse. It's not really the horse...
...first of three in the opening half, when Harvard's offensive line treated the Dartmouths with Rodney Dangerfield-like respect. In other words, with none. The holes that opened were immense, and at least on this day, Brown, Sigillito, Ralph Polillio, and Chris Doherty looked like the Four Horsemen of Fresh Pond Parkway...
...Saturday, Harvard met Oxford in a match held in honor of the Queen's Silver Jubilee at the Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton. The match proved to be as charming as the idea itself. The Crimson horsemen scored a goal in the final 30 seconds to tie the game at eight goals apiece...
...Crown quest with a cool deliberation that caused more second-guessing than usual along the backstretch. He purposely raced him little, harnessing his show of speed to guard against the fatal misstep that stalks the big, fragile-legged thoroughbreds. Slew's schedule was matched with equally undemanding workouts. Horsemen were quick to point out that he was slightly "short"-not in peak form-for the Kentucky Derby. After that race, Cruguet dawdled briefly up the track before riding into the winner's circle, because Slew was winded. Said the jockey, "I didn't want him panting there...
Washington would have been proud, but for the Harvard polo team it was just another futile attempt at victory as Valley Forge Military Academy charged through the Crimson horsemen, 19-2, Sunday in Pennsylvania...