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...Democratic Union presidential candidate was Radical ex-Senator José P. Tamborini, a porteño (citizen of Buenos Aires) and ex-physician who makes a meager living translating French and Italian authors. He has a weakness for handsome books, spends hours in Buenos Aires' swank, Goya-lined Jockey Club library...
Pick When Ripe. For 5 ft. 3 Stan Lipiec (he buys his clothes in the boys' department) life began at 14, when he skipped school and took to the turf. As a fourth-rate jockey in Cuba (he still gallops his nags mornings), he learned what makes a horse tick. Over & above his practical schooling, he developed a strategic sixth sense for razor-sharp hay-burners. His secret lies in knowing when to nab horses that other trainers have brought to peak performance...
Meanwhile Elizabeth Arden Graham's trainer, Tom Smith, charged by the Jockey Club of New York with using a 2.6% ephedrine solution (to clear up his horses' heads, he said), appealed his'year's suspension, and was promised a public hearing. Roy Waldron, his successor as Mrs. Graham's trainer, had already proved that Maine Chance Farm horses scarcely needed to be hopped. Last week the stable's star two-year-old, Star Pilot, copped the Pimlico Futurity, adding $26,365 to the $525,505 which the beautician's horses had already...
Last week, nasal sprays were no joke for Silent Tom Smith, the man who developed Seabiscuit and this year trained Cosmetic Queen Elizabeth Arden Graham's top money-winning stable ($512,454 in purses). New York's vigilant Jockey Club, having found some dopey spray in one of his horses, banned Trainer Smith from U.S. tracks for a year...
...undetectable stimulant was a 2.6% solution of ephedrine. Sprayed up horse's nostrils, ephedrine acts within 15 minutes and the effect lasts for about two hours. Jockey Club snoopers first seized and analyzed a nearly empty bottle found in one of Smith's stalls. Then on Nov. 1, just after his Magnific Duel won at Jamaica, inspectors broke into the stall and caught the training staff with the goods-ephedrine in atomizers...