Word: pacers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
...Adios Butler, world's fastest pacer (TIME, June 30), gave his victory-jaded fans something extra to cheer about in last week's one-mile Dan Patch Pace at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway. The Butler breezed home 3½ lengths in front on the half-mile track, tied Bye Bye Byrd's 1959 world record...
...Butler was picked up at the 1957 Harrisburg, Pa., yearling sales for a paltry $6,000. Since then, he has won 26 out of 39 races, captured $355,844 in purses, brought $600,000 from his sale to a syndicate. Last year he became the world's fastest pacer by stepping off a 1:54.6 mile at Lexington, Ky., breaking the 1:55 record set in 1938 by his granddad, Billy Direct...