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...54th running of the Lawrence Realization Stakes. It was not the kind of day on which a smart colt would want to run 1⅝ miles - especially when his cut of the $25,000 added purse would only amount to an extra mouthful of oats. And the favorite, Mahout, who twice recently had bested the triple crown winner, Assault, was an intelligent beast. He was also without guile...
...even the Morning Telegraph had failed to report this little idiosyncrasy of Mahout's. Anyhow, the crowd was busy counting its chickens. The New York students, who love all favorites, were enraptured: here was a stake horse, with Arcaro up, out for a gallop; any price was a good one. They sent $140,000 into the machines, backing Mahout down to 1-4, then sat back to await the obvious...
...Mahout broke well and closely followed Alamond and School Tie for a quarter of a mile - to his favorite spot near the little stable road. There he stopped being conventional. Bolting towards the outside rail, he dug his four feet into the loam, and neither Arcaro's bat nor his backer's prayers could move him an inch...
There were few cheers for School Tie, the winner, and no boos for Mahout. The stunned crowd viewed the performance with deep respect. Nothing like this had happened since last May, when a well-backed jumper left the steeplechase course at the third jump, and went for a dip in the infield lake...
...Your story "Mahout" [TIME, Feb. 14] infuriated me. . . . I mean no reflection on TIME'S reporting of the facts-for facts they are-but rather an anger at the inference . . . that the average American is confused and hasn't the faintest idea of what he wants in a new national Administration. That is not true...