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...horse Sterope had just won the Cambridgeshire Stakes. The purse was a mere $12,273, but Townley stood to win a staggering $600,000 in bets. And the jockey on Royal Tara, which finished second, had claimed a foul against his horse. What if Townley's horse had won only to be disqualified...
...planned the coup carefully. First, the horse was bought last July for about ?4,000 with only the Cambridgeshire in mind. The tough, hilly Newmarket course was studied foot by foot so that the jockey could be told "where to do what" far in advance. Townley bet his money strategically, in driblets spread among more than 80 bookmakers. He got some money on at 50 to 1, some more al 40. Then the price eased off to 33. Sterope went to the post at 25 to 1. Altogether Townley bet about $16,000 on him to win -and Sterope...
Citation ran like a railroad train. When Jockey Eddie Arcaro pushed the throttle, Citation, who runs with great economy, came whistling down the stretch, using just enough steam to stay two lengths ahead of his nearest rival, Phalanx, and pick up $75,600. It put him just behind Stymie ($911,335), the biggest money-winning horse of all time. Citation's total...
Three days later, in what looked like the toughest test of Citation's career-the twomile, $100,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup -Arcaro was prepared to try out the magic words once more. This time he didn't even have to speak. He took the big mahogany-colored horse to the front at the start. Citation won by eight easy lengths, in the longest distance he has ever...
...Communist Radio Revue which, at the same time, editorially warns against listening to "le pick-up Americain." France is the only European country except Greece that relays a Voice program on its own medium wave band. The Voice's local director, Simon Copans, also runs three weekly disc-jockey shows specializing in American music...