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Second, late scratches in a race can drastically alter its complexion, especially with reference to pace. Professional horsemen know that two front-running horses tend to tire each other. Thus, a strong come-from behind horse entered against two front-runners becomes a bad investment when one of those front-runners is scratched. A lone front-runner entered against off-the-pace horses can control a slow early pace and have plenty of gas left for the stretch drive...
...were the original Four Horsemen...
...Taming of the Shrew, starring the Burtons, Zeffirelli dazzles the eye with a virtuoso use of color. His camera is a Renaissance palette. Courtiers stride by in the muted gold and crimsons of Piero della Francesca; cobblestones and horsemen diminish into the serene infinities of Uccello. Visually, Shakespeare has never been better realized-and seldom has he had so sensitive a collaborator...
...bred for the short bursts of speed needed to herd cattle. To fill the lonesome hours, cowpokes began match-racing for payday stakes and, as one oldtimer put it, "if you couldn't whup the guy you beat, you didn't get your money." Before long, horsemen were organizing races at state and county fairs across the West. Whole herds of cattle were common stakes, and more than one ranch changed hands after a head-to-head race...
...Since she launched her streak last spring, she has grown 3 in. taller, to 5 ft. 1 in. (15.1 hands), and put on 120 lbs., to 850. She is still puny compared with other thoroughbreds, who average about 1,100 lbs. Her small stature and undistinguished ancestry prompt some horsemen to label her a freak. "I can't find anything right about her except her record," says Trainer Buddy Raines. "It seems impossible that she has so much quality on the racetrack. If I had my pick of all the horses now running at Delaware Park, without knowing their...