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Each horse is impeccably sired: Never Bend by the Irish stallion Nasrullah (other offspring: Nashua, Bold Ruler, Jaipur), Candy Spots by the Argentine stakes winner Nigromante. As a matter of fact, the two horses seem so closely matched that even the oddsmakers are having trouble. Last week in Tijuana, Mexico bookies quoted Never Bend at 2 to 1 to win the Kentucky Derby, Candy Spots...
...five-year-old gelding-won only five races in eleven starts, but still swept the voting for Horse of the Year for an unprecedented third straight year. A great-grandson of Man o' War, Kelso needs only $30,000 more to become the fifth millionaire (others: Round Table, Nashua, Citation, Carry Back) in U.S. racing history...
...unprecedented third year in a row. Ridden by Jockey Ismael Valenzuela, who never had to use his whip, Mrs. Richard C. du Pont's five-year-old gelding breezed to an easy ten-length victory, covered the two miles in 3 min. 19-4/5 sec.-breaking Nashua's track record. Kelso's $70,785 winner's purse ran his lifetime earnings to $938,380-sixth highest total in U.S. racing history, and the all-time high for a gelding...
GERRY TAPP Nashua, Iowa...
From South Viet Nam, Gardner wrote Nashua High School classmates: "This is a lonely, hot, dirty, and filthy war over here. It is a life-and-death struggle against Communism, poverty and lack of education, but the South Vietnamese will win it, as we will give our lives if we have to for the struggle." Last week Sergeant Gardner, 39, gave his life when he ran into a Viet Cong mortar attack in the jungle 360 miles north of Saigon. Three days later, two U.S. Army officers were killed in a Viet Cong ambush. They brought to six the number...