Word: lads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, Wheatley Stable's Trainer Bill Winfrey pointed gaily to the magnificent shiner that one of his horses had given him when it kicked him in the barn. "Tell you what I'll do," he said. "If they beat our Bold Lad, I'll eat the steak I've been wearing...
...FEET TALL. An orphaned British lad (Fergus McClelland) wandering alone through Africa falls in with a grizzled old diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) in a crackling adventure story with the charm of Huck Finn and the ruggedness of a Hemingway safari...
...Bold Lad: a three-length victory in the Mowlee Purse; at Aqueduct. Fully recovered from the painful "splints" (tumorlike growths) on his forelegs that had kept him out of action since last October, Wheatley Stable's six-time stakes winner sped six furlongs in 1 min., 10 2/5 sec., stamped himself as a strong contender for May's Kentucky Derby...
...moment he shrewdly plays the grimness of war against the undeniable glamour of it, next diverts the flow of sentimental clichés into a vein of snappish humor. "I'd enjoy meeting your son," says Meredith. "Naw-you wouldn't," grumbles Wayne, eying the lad across a messroom with eloquent distaste. Other scenes crackle comfortably: O'Neal cravenly having his backbone slapped into shape in the men's washup; Andrews placidly playing croquet on his front lawn under the snout of an anti-aircraft battery. The film is marred by wearisome repetition...
Chips & Splints. This year's casualties beat all. First there was Mary Hecht's Sadair, which won more money ($498,217) last year than any two-year-old in history; two months ago in Florida, Sadair cracked a bone in his foot. Then there was Bold Lad, brightest star in Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps's Wheatley Stable, the top money-winning stable in the U.S. ($1,073,572 in 1964). A son of Bold Ruler, "the fastest horse in the world up to nine furlongs," Bold Lad seemed like a chip off the old block when...