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Pawtucket, R. I., Oct. 31--Okapi and Mack Garner teamed up here today at Narragansett Park and whipped the great Equipoise...
...Spring meeting of the Westchester Racing Association opened at flowery Belmont Park four days later.* Flecked by tragedy, Mrs. Sloane's colors continued their phenomenal gallop from prize to prize. In the 41st running of the Toboggan Handicap, Belmont's opener, Mrs. Sloane's favorite horse, Okapi, was entered. Mack Garner was up -"Colonel" Mack Garner since he had won the Kentucky Derby on Cavalcade two weeks before. Riding high on Brookmeade's luck, Garner, a comparative dodderer among jockeys, at 34 was having the best season of his 20 years in racing. Nothing could stop...
...soon as she could, Mrs. Sloane dashed to the paddock where steaming Okapi was being cooled out by Garner and her trainer Robert A. ("Whistling Bob") Smith, also a Kentucky colonel since the Derby. "You made a work horse out of him last year," accused Mrs. Sloane, stroking little Okapi, her "pet." "You made a pacemaker...
...John F. Dodge (automobiles) left her, decided to take,up horse racing. She had bad luck until Bob Smith, 40 years in the business, took over her stable two years ago. He bought Time Clock for $700, Cavalcade for $1,200, High Quest for $3,500. Brookmeade had acquired Okapi for $6,500 and Inlander for $7,200 the year before. With these bargains as the nucleus of a small stable of 39 head, Trainer Smith stepped out in 1933 and proceeded to lay the foundations for a record which is now unequalled by any other horse-owning sportswoman...
Explorer Bezuidenhout explained he had accomplished his feat by disguising himself as a wild pig, going about grunting. Once a male okapi- who failed to be photographed- kicked the pig. Once an elephant charged the pig, made Mr. Bezuidenhout evacuate the pigskin, which it tusked and trampled...