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Currently, the Jacobs stables contain 60 horses. Forty are in active competition. The rest are learning the business at the Jacobs farm in Maryland. The majority of both groups are "platers" (cheap horses entered in races of which any entrant can be claimed by anyone for a price stated by its owner beforehand). Under Jacobs' management platers sometimes improve so rapidly as to be unrecognizable. Wonder horse of the season is a 7-year-old named Action. When Trainer Jacobs bought him for the customary $1,000 six months ago, Action was not only the cheapest kind of plater...
...starving for bread," red-inked the American Friendship Society of Detroit, which offered "ABSOLUTELY FREE" lists of wealthy widows to anybody who had the price of a two-cent stamp. In four years the "society" had collected more than $100,000 in "dues." Its president, a Mrs. Olga Plater, and her husband, Albert Browel Plater (who in 1917 had been ac cused of impersonating a Russian count, a U. S. Army captain), lived in a $50,000 home near Detroit. Last week the American Friendship Society was involved in a sordid, hideous mess. In a shallow grave beside a garage...
...winter race meeting was at its height, the horses, lying down or standing motionless in their stalls, slept in darkness. The smell in the wooden barns was a smell of hay, liniment and leather. Through these pleasant smells there drifted presently the acrid odor of smoke. A tall chestnut plater flicked his ears and stumbled to his feet, making a sudden muffled thunder in the darkness...