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Four-thirty a.m.: breakfast; 5:30 a.m.: exercised for five or six miles, then cleaned and groomed; if he has no mare to serve that day he lolls around in his stall from 9 to 11, then lunch; 12:30 p.m. to 4: more lolling; 4:30 p.m.: cleaned and fed again (eats oats, bran, Nevada hay and a mixture of timothy and clover); then tucked into the barn for the night...
...money in his genes. Having a mare served by him costs the mare's owner $5,000, although occasionally Mr. Riddle, for the good of racing, waives the stud fee for poor owners of mares with fine strains. Through 1941 he has sired 335 registered foals. His get had won 1,069 races for $2,970,428. Some of his more brilliant offspring: American Flag, Crusader, War Admiral, Mars, Clyde Van Dusen, Bateau, Scapa Flow, War Glory, Genie and Battleship. Big Red was the famed Seabiscuit's grandpa. Though his weight is up a little and his back...
...pretty stenographer crashed a bottle of Pike's Peak snow water against the first of eight freight cars, and the "Good Ship Mountain Maid" rumbled westward-loaded with prefabricated steel for the hulls of naval escort ships. Same day, their keels were laid at California's Mare Island Navy Yard...
...week's end the coast was sure that its fears were not hysterical. FBI agents continued their raids. In one of them, made on "very definite suspicions of espionage," at Vallejo, Calif, near the Navy's big Mare Island yard, they seized Navy signal flags and flares, arrested nine Japs...
...line of McGrath, Paine, and Gebelein. Captain Summers, Dreher, and O'Neill complete the starting sextet. Caleb Loring is back in action after an extended layoff, and he will take a position on the second line, along with Albie Everts and Dick Harding. The third line of Earle Acker, Mare Beebe, and Johnny Burton, together with the second defense of Tom Cowan and Chuck Griffith will also see action...