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...Florida's Hialeah Park last weekend, another Calumet favorite flopped at 7-to-10 odds. Coaltown, co-holder of the world record at a mile-and-a-quarter, showed a flash of early foot in the $50,000-added Widener Handicap, then flattened out like a claiming plater. He finished next to last, beaten ten lengths by Royal Governor...
...first human patients treated with the electrophrenic respirator was nine-year-old Bruce Plater, of Ottawa, Ont., who developed bulbar polio while on vacation in New England. In July, at Children's Hospital in Boston, Bruce's breathing was electrically controlled for six days before the disease receded. Six machines are now ready for use. By New Year's they will be generally available, at about $275 each...
...like a race between Citation and a $1500 dollar plater at the Arena last night, as Holy Cross scintillating basketball team handed the varsity its fifth straight defeat, 64, to 48, before a near-capacity crowd of about 5,000. The Crusaders led at halftime...
...formulated it into a rule that Eddie still works by: "Never go outside of two or inside of one." Davison was insistent about never losing ground; it cost Arcaro one spill after another, trying to squeeze through between horses. The first bad tumble he had was from a plater named Gunfire at Chicago in 1933. "Don't let anybody tell you that a spill like that doesn't leave a rider jittery," says Arcaro. "I was gun shy for a long time...
...horse trainer on a western leaky-roof circuit. He was in his 503 before he landed his first big-time training job, and today is one of the crack trainers at pointing a horse for a specific race. His first masterstroke: claiming a $7,500 plater and developing him into mighty Seabiscuit...