Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pounded by Guerin all the way down the stretch, and almost caught Dark Star. He lost by a head. "In that last 100 yards or so,'' says Bill Winfrey, "he probably ran the fastest he has ever' run." The Dancer's groom, a devoted, venerable Maryland Negro named Lester Murray, insists that the Dancer was badly disturbed after that race by being led back to the stable without the accustomed halt at the winner's circle...
...Murray waddles into Stall 6, trustfully sits on the straw directly beneath Native Dancer and begins wrapping training bandages around both fore ankles. Bill Winfrey, standing by and sipping coffee, does not intend to work the Dancer hard but merely to "blow him out"?let him run to clear his lungs and get his system unkinked for the afternoon's business. Bernie Everson, the Dancer's regular exercise boy, mounts and, with Winfrey in the lead on a palomino pony, walks the Dancer slowly out to the big track. From the stands, the dockers can see a quarter...
...Back in the barn, Les Murray takes over again, to "do" his horse...
...hurt a man (he once blacked Winfrey's eye merely by lifting a knee while the trainer was inspecting his ankle), the Dancer stands stone calm as the groom sponges off the sleek grey hide and gives the legs a liniment wash. "He knows me lak' a book," says Murray. "An' I knows him. We gets along." Mutters a visitor: "That guy sure has faith in that grey horse." Now almost finished, Murray takes hold of the dark grey tail and pulls his 200-plus pounds to his feet. "That's how I stand up," Murray laughs. The Dancer hardly...
...Dancer whickers. "When he's talkin' like that, he wants his food," says Murray. Two quarts of oats go into the cerise and white feed bucket. The Dancer is a "good doer," i.e., a copious eater?about ten quarts of grain and extras a day. As the horse eats, Murray begins to whistle. "This is how I make him make water," he explains...