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...York Racing Association makes up the deficit. That annoys Albany politicians, who nowadays count on racing revenues to provide some $110 million (about 4%) of the budget, and would like an even bigger take. But a tradition-honoring state law guarantees Saratoga 24 days of racing each year, and horsemen insist that they will never give them up. "Not till the springs dry up," says one. "We work for the state all year at Aqueduct. Saratoga...
...mile (3 min. 54.4 sec.) easily outclassed six opponents. In the same meet, Beatty won the mile, breezing in at 4 min. 00.8 sec. > France's Relko: the 184th English Derby, by six lengths and at 5-1 odds over what British horsemen called the worst field in years (11 of the 26 horses had never won a race). Owned by Paris Hotelman Francois Dupré and a stablemate of Match II, which won last year's $125,000 Washington, D.C., International, Relko picked up $98,950 for his afternoon's outing at Epsom. > Britain...
...they are the stars of a band of Latin Americans who are starting to dominate U.S. racing. Hard-pressed to find youngsters who are light enough (maximum: about 114 Ibs.) or hungry enough to perform the mean chores (walking "hots,"' mucking out stalls) expected of budding jockeys, U.S. horsemen more and more are importing riders from south of the border. This season five top U.S. stables-Cain Hoy. Greentree, Bohemia, Fred W. Hooper and Gustave Ring-are employing Latin jockeys. Mexico-bred Milo Valenzuela, 28, is the regular rider for Mrs. Richard du Font's Kelso, three-time...
...horsemen, like lovers, are optimists. "If you had your choice, which would you rather win-the World Series or the Kentucky Derby?" someone asked Millionaire Sportsman John Galbreath. He just laughed. His Pittsburgh Pirates had won the Series in 1960; now his Chateaugay was making a run for the roses. The horse had cost Galbreath $2,000,000-the price he paid for its sire, Swaps, the 1955 Derby winner. But Chateaugay was still a 9-1 long shot...
Cowboy v. Millionaire. For horsemen the 1963 Kentucky Derby also shapes up as a contest of purpose and theory. Rex Ellsworth has come a far piece since he showed up in Kentucky in 1933 with $600 in his poke and a yen to buy some brood mares. His mercurial colt Swaps outran Nashua in the 1955 Derby, and his horses won $1,154,454 last year. Now Ellsworth owns a 440-acre ranch in Chino, Calif., 1,000 sq. mi. of range land in Arizona and New Mexico, and about 500 head of high-priced thoroughbred horseflesh...