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...color on the rail, came up from behind and closed for the final duel. Noor was first as they headed for home. Then Citation came up again; for second after aching second, they ran shoulder to shoulder, wild and even as a runaway team, while the stands and infield erupted insane sound...
McInnis, who is in his second year at the University, looked back on his stint with the Philadelphia Athletics as a member of their famed $100,000 infield...
...thousands in Madison Square Garden had watched a kaleidoscopic spectacle: a multitude of lithe young men in multicolored jerseys whirling through the early events of indoor track's classic Millrose Games. But at 10 p.m. the Garden lights dimmed. The jogging regiments of runners gathered quietly in the infield. A spotlight was turned on a huge U.S. flag. The band brassily essayed The Star-Spangled Banner and a fight-night baritone swelled his chest and shamelessly drowned...
Visibility was so poor that Citation and his three rivals could barely be seen across the mist-shrouded infield. Trainer Jones, a thickset little man with a perpetually worried look, had a twinge of conscience as the field entered the starting gate: "It's a little like putting Joe DiMaggio back in the game in midseason and letting him bat against good, seasoned pitchers. He might strike out." Jimmy had another bad moment when Citation broke slowly and wallowed down the backstretch eating mud from other horses' heels...
This week 100,000 jammed grandstands, pavilions and infield to watch Europe's richest horse race, the Prix de l'Arc-de-Triomphe. Despite devaluation, the mile-and-a-half event for three-year-olds and up paid the winners a whacking $122,857. At post time, a few infield sentimentalists dredged up their last sous to get aboard Rita Hayworth's filly Double Rose. Amour Drake and Val Drake, wearing the funereal black silks of Paris' most dramatic relict, the dashing young widow of Theatrical Magnate Leon Volterra, were the heavy favorites, but form players...