Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After checking out the previous days races on video tape in the confines of the jockey's room--"and Misty Run now getting too the lead,"--they visited old friends in white spats and sharkskin suits. The Wellesley Kid bought a round of drinks. A. G. Vanderbilt and wife were there for light conversation. A very live spirit from the past--when Arnold Rothstein won $850,000 on Sidereal, when Pittsburg Phil was in his heyday, when Diamond Jim Brady and Subway Sam Rosoff ate much and bet more, when a "handy guy like Sande was bootin' them babies...
There is a certain high rolling friend of mine who has devoted himself to handicapping the New York horses. I talked about his nocturnal habits in an earlier issue. His name is the Wellesley Kid. His race track habits are very...
...delights in tapping out his bundle on a certain New York router called Amstel. When Amstel whacked out all the other cheapies in a $5000 claimer at Aqueduct a few weeks ago and romped home by a sweet six lengths the Wellesley Kid was a heavy contributor to the odds-on price of three to five...
Most of the former addicts were very critical of all drugs, including marijuana. "Any kid who says pot does not lead to other drugs is crazy," said one former addict...
...free Wayne western about four lusty, brawling brothers. But that was just for loot. Now that he was back on his feet, some things were griping him. The moral backslide, for one. He stumped for his friends Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. "I said there was a tall, lanky kid that led 150 airplanes across Berlin. He was an actor, but that day, I said, he was a colonel. Colonel Jimmy Stewart. So I said, what is all this crap about Reagan being an actor...