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...officer of the glorious Italian Cavalry, I've something to say about your article, "Mexico's Five Horsemen" [TIME...
...five-or six-jump run at the starting pole. The greatest race Shannon ever ran, he lost. That day, he got left at the post by 60 yards and then put on a magnificent charge and barely failed to win in 1:36. Making allowances for his poor start, horsemen estimate that he ran the mile...
...Bowie last week, his services were in such demand by horsemen that he practically had his choice of mounts. Last week, he rode his 256th winner. The only jockeys who have won more races this year, are Oldtimers Johnny Longden (301) and Ted Atkinson...
Wonder-Boy Welles has an imaginative way with a camera. His stark and gloomy settings create a fine mood for tragedy. The 11th Century Scotland of this movie is a rough, barbaric country with a castle jutting out of the sharp rock; hard-eyed horsemen gallop like wild west villains across the foggy landscape; the wide palace courtyard is full of mud puddles and pigs. Welles has thus succeeded in surrounding the plot with an atmosphere that makes all the crude violence believable; photographically, this mood is sustained. Dramatically, it is often violated, both by transpositions of text...
...Citation's 23rd victory in 25 starts (including the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont, American Derby), and boosted his earnings to $744,650, third highest in history. There had never been another horse like him since Man O' War, and plenty of horsemen were arguing that he was the best ever...