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Hugh Russell Fraser's U.S. history hobbyhorse got the bit in its teeth last week, galloped right out of the New York Times paddock. Three months ago Fraser was a temporary Times expert on history teaching. Together they steamed up a busy U.S. by charges that high-school graduates know little or no U.S. history (TIME, April 12). Fraser charged that schools neglect the subject. Last week it was clear the Times and Fraser were of two minds...
...many U.S. race tracks the clubhouse restaurant faces the paddock so that fans can watch the paddock odds-board while feeding. For the Hipódromo's customers Architect Sloan has shown even more consideration. The club's eight oval bars and four restaurants all face the track so that customers can watch the races as well as the tote board...
...Gusto was no Whirlaway. But he will long be remembered as one of the truly remarkable thoroughbreds of the U.S. turf. Son of a castoff mare named Sweetheart Time and a stallion that had been sold without pedigree at the Lexington stockyards, he was reared in a small grassless paddock behind the Latonia race track. His owner, the track superintendent, sent him out to earn his oats in cheap claiming races.* The biggest purse he ever won was $5,000. Nevertheless, when his name was finally scratched last week, Mucho Gusto's record read: 63 victories in 215 starts...
...went last year, the 10,000 who succeeded in getting to the Heath last week were a cozy little standful. Women, crowding around the Royal Enclosure, had a chance to gawk at the Queen's pale lavender costume, with hat and shoes to match. In the paddock, folks got a good look at the King, noted his more than usual good humor. For the first time in the history of British horse racing, the Royal Stables were on the verge of winning all four of England's classic races for three-year-olds...
...long known as the Newmarket of America, last week tried to become the Longchamps of America too. As an accessory to the $5,000 Fashion Stakes (opening-day feature for two-year-old fillies), President Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt set up a runway on a balcony café overlooking the paddock, got ten Manhattan smartshops to send clotheshorses to parade between races...