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...back stretch, one pacer stepped into the wheel of an opponent's sulky, stumbled-and in an instant the track was littered with horses and drivers. Only two entries managed to skirt the pile-up and keep going. The crowd sat stunned as attendants rushed onto the track to administer to the writhing animals and cart an injured driver off to the hospital. But when the track paid off on the two that finished and voided tickets on the six fallen horses-all legitimate according to the rules-horror turned to unreasoning anger...
Most successful of three racing brothers (the others: Vernon, 39, and Harold, 50), Stanley Dancer drove his first sulky at 17 at New Jersey's back-country Freehold Raceway. He wore borrowed silks, splurged $200 of 4-H Club prize money on a filly pacer, and lost the race. But the bug was there-and within five years, the man who loaned him the racing outfit was working for Dancer...
After that, every horse Dancer touched seemed to grow wings. He spent $1,200 for a lame pacer named Volo Chief, won $36,000, and added a two-bedroom wing to his house. Today, Dancer's Egyptian Acres boasts a heated swimming pool, fireproof barns, and air-conditioned dormitories for the stable hands. The 55 horses in his pastures are valued at more than $4,000,000, and Dancer employs a fulltime bookkeeper to keep track of operating expenses that amount to $350,000 a year...
...Pacer's Strut. Nowadays, an American mother need not riffle through her Spock with alarm upon observing that her daughter has developed the unnatural strut of a pacer. When she begins walking around the living room sticking out her chest, mother should know that her daughter has merely caught a whiff of a booming mania, and that soon the child will become a drum majorette...
...nightlong riot. By morning, 27 had been arrested on charges ranging from receiving stolen property (a telephone ripped off a cafe wall) to disorderly conduct. But the man who had engineered the excuse for all the excitement had no time to relax. Fred Hutchinson remained the glowering dugout pacer who kept the Reds going all summer long...