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...Notebook: Cornell leads the nation in digs with 21.681 a game...The Big Red is also ranked fifth in the nation in aces with 3.298 a game, while Columbia comes in at 12th with 2.833...Columbia's Latonia Scott is fourth in the nation in service aces with .944 a game...In other Ivy action today, Penn hosts Brown, Dartmouth is at Columbia...Yale is playing in the Syracuse tournament, while Cornell is participating in the Colgate tournament...Cornell's Tere Duran was named Ivy Player of the Week. The senior has consistently been among the nation's leaders...
Cauthen broke in when he was 16 at nearby little tracks like Kentucky's Latonia, where the horseflesh was less than prime and the riding more than a little rough. He handled that trial by guile and nerve and then moved on to New York's Aqueduct race track, the Big Apple. He was riding "bugboy light," a 5-lb.. weight allowance granted apprentice jockeys. But on the home turf of Angel Cordero Jr., Ron Turcotte 'and Jorge Velasquez, that was the only allowance...
...when Eddie was twelve, the principal of his school asked his mother whether Eddie was feeling better. Said his mother: "I didn't know he wasn't feeling well." Eddie had been playing hooky for 43 days, using his lunch money for carfare out to Latonia, to fool around the horses. His father read him the riot act and sent him back to school. Six months later his parents caught him driving back from the race track again in the family Packard...
...Whirlaway. But he will long be remembered as one of the truly remarkable thoroughbreds of the U.S. turf. Son of a castoff mare named Sweetheart Time and a stallion that had been sold without pedigree at the Lexington stockyards, he was reared in a small grassless paddock behind the Latonia race track. His owner, the track superintendent, sent him out to earn his oats in cheap claiming races.* The biggest purse he ever won was $5,000. Nevertheless, when his name was finally scratched last week, Mucho Gusto's record read: 63 victories in 215 starts; earnings...
...Colonel Winn's American Turf Association still owns Chicago's Lincoln Fields, Kentucky's Churchill Downs and Latonia race tracks...