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...Lexington, Ky., last year, a brass band cut loose as Bret Hanover was warming up for a race. He bolted, flung Trainer-Driver Frank Ervin, 60, over the infield rail, and fell on top of him. Ervin got up and went to the hospital with a wrenched back, a damaged kidney and a pinched intestine. Bret got up-and won by four lengths with a substitute driver. Last month, in the $125,236 Cane Futurity at New York's Yonkers Raceway, another horse broke stride on the first turn and caromed off Bret's sulky. "I almost went...
...Justice's slow, spinning bloopers, and the Good Guys went down looking as Brackman and Hertzberg rifled 'em down the pipe, fanning a total of 14 between them. Lee Simowitz's head-over-heels circus catch in the sixth robbed WMEX of its only shot out of the infield...
...through the northwest turn at 150 m.p.h. when the suspension of his Lotus collapsed. "All of a sudden the back end started steering the front," Parnelli shuddered later. The car slammed into the wall, slid 570 ft., spun, slid again, and finally came to rest 110 ft. onto the infield grass...
Crimson pitcher Jim McCandlish, thinking he had detected the beginning of a fad, ventured another bunt. He was right. The catcher hit him in the back with the ball and the bases were loaded. Houston then grounded sharply to the left side of the infield. The Holy Cross shortstop made a diving catch but had no play as Neville crossed the plate...
...ninth, Scott walked the first two batters on four pitches each. An infield hit loaded the bases, and Dick Paster singled sharply up the middle to drive in the winning...