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...Little (no Ibs.) Willie Hartack, the year's leading jockey, turned in one of the season's flashiest performances on Maryland's Laurel race track. In an eight-race program, Willie booted home six winners, including Rhy Dress, which galloped home second in the $12,816 Maryland Futurity but was awarded first on a foul...
Eliot House piano stylist Joseph G. Raposo '58 was heralded as "a great musician" by Boston disc jockey Sidney Toren in an interview last night, Known in music circles as "Symphony Sid" and a fly hipster (expert) on the "cool" school of jazz, Toren was equally lavish with praise for Raposo's quartet and its saxophonist, John C. M. Brust...
...nation's leading steeplechase jockey, Frank ("Dooley") Adams, rode five-year-old Neji, the year's top steeplechase horse (five firsts in eight starts) to a three-quarter-length win in the world's richest steeplechase, the $57,300 Temple Gwathmey at New York's Belmont Park...
...Hands & Phone Call. Airman Townsend, slim, wavy-haired fighter-pilot hero of the Battle of Britain, was the first to get to London. Looking fit and 41, he arrived with his Nile green Renault sedan on a Bristol cargo plane at Lydd airport, packed his gear and his gentleman-jockey's tack into the back seat, and drove straight to the Lowndes Square home of Marquess Abergavenny, a close friend of the royal family. That same evening the press learned that Princess Margaret was due in from Scotland next morning. A battery of reporters stood at Euston Station...
...Over a sloppy track at Belmont Park, Belair Stud's Nashua scored his tenth victory in twelve 1955 starts to win the $79,950 Jockey Club Gold Cup. The purse boosted Nashua's earnings for this year to $752,550, surpassing the old record for single-season earnings ($709,470) set by Citation in 1948. Three-year-old Nashua's lifetime winnings now total $945,415, second to Citation's record...