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...biggest triumph came earlier this month at Newmarket, England, in the race known as the 2,000 Guineas, the first in the English version of the Triple Crown. He urged Tap on Wood from the middle of the field to win by a head. It was a brilliant ride aboard a 20-to-1 shot, and left Cauthen exultant: "I was thrilled, as thrilled as if I'd won the Kentucky Derby...
Fisher retired from Harvard in 1974, and lived in Newmarket, N.H. He is survived by his wife and two sons...
Britain's Dick Francis was once a champion steeplechase rider; since 1964 he has been booting home thrillers about horse racing. In KNOCKDOWN (Harper & Row; 217 pages; $6.95), his 15th, Francis penetrates the roseate façade of Ascot and Newmarket to examine the seamy, ruthless world of horseflesh peddlers. His laconic hero, Jonah Dereham, an ex-jock turned agent, refuses to play along with a ring of crooked horse traders. A loner, like most of Francis' characters, Dereham learns the hard way that "all's fair in love, war and bloodstock": he is savagely beaten, pitchforked...
About 50 workers in Newmarket Square burned copies of a leaflet entitled "Why Should You Pay for the Vietnam War?" They shouted obscenities and threatened to force the students to leave the loading dock where they were handing out the leaflets...
About half the workers at the Newmarket terminal are Negro. Many of them joked with each other, "No need to give that to me, I can't read anyhow." The crowd which jeered the SDS members was predominantly white...