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...means it, and they try to keep their troops always just beyond the next hill. A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda of a rich Mexican is sighted toward dusk the Cárdenas party of from ten to 50 horsemen may drop in on the local bigwig whom it is the business of the Six-Year Plan to turn into a smallwig owning not over 381 acres-the theoretical top to which all crop-producing private land holdings in Mexico are ultimately to be reduced...
...again this year and become the first owner to take the event twice in a row. Because he had no likely prospect, as he went the rounds of the Grand Circuit this summer Horse Owner Sheppard kept one eye on his own stable, the other on his fellow horsemen's. At Agawam three weeks ago, he saw William Cane's Hambletonian entry, McLin, outstep the highly touted Long Key in the third heat of the American Stake (after a miserable showing in the two previous heats). As quick as a man could say David Harum, Owner Sheppard offered...
With just eight days to get accustomed to his new charge, who was notorious for his bad temper and fondness for breaking from racing stride into a gallop. Driver Henry Thomas, one of the sturdiest and smartest in the game, thought he had McLin ready on Hambletonian Day. Seasoned horsemen, however, knowing that McLin had never finished in the money as a two-year-old and had not won a race this season, doubted whether even foxy, strong-fingered Henry Thomas could handle him. At the end of the first one-mile heat, when McLin, trotting in faultless gait, came...
Under the leadership of On Stade the Crimson poloists a scored a thrilling 8-6 triumph over the Ell horsemen...
...Overland Express (Coronet-Columbia). One April day 78 years ago two crack horsemen set out lickety-split, one from Sacramento, Calif., the other from St. Joseph, Mo., to inaugurate the Pony Express and start a legend that is still galloping. Last week, while towns along the oldtime route were restoring some of the legendary landmarks, cinema's hardest-riding Western star, resolute, weather-beaten Buck Jones, was blazing the trail again for the younger generation. Pledged to abstain from profanity and hard liquor, Buck and his heck-for-leather pony riders yippee forth on their foam-flecked ponies, carry...