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Nitwit Champion. Such thoroughness, practiced more in Europe than in the U.S., aims to develop disciplined horses that can adjust to race-track life. But there was one notable exception, a nitwit named Whirlaway, in the 1939 yearling crop...
...Added": in addition to nomination and entry fees. A race-track process to overcome knee and ankle injuries. A series of holes about an eighth of an inch deep is burned around the afflicted area with an instrument resembling an electric soldering iron. The "fired" leg, swollen and inflamed, is then painted for ten days with a strong iodine solution. Alleged result: it changes the chronic inflammation into an acute inflammation, and nature cures whatever Is wrong with the knee or ankle...
...dizzy burst of speed. Still, Fred Hooper figured that his thoroughbred, Olympia, could run a faster short burst than any horse he had ever seen. No one knows exactly how much money changed hands that day on the quarter-mile match race between Stella Moore, the quarter-horse from Texas, and Olympia, the finely tempered thoroughbred. The race-track experts themselves leaned toward the quarter-horse. But tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) Fred Hooper quietly covered all bets-and saw his thoroughbred win by a neck...
...Race-track slang for apprentice jockey. When a horse's name in the entries has a buglike asterisk beside it, it means that an apprentice is riding...
Last week, four Cabinet ministers met with race-track managers to discuss Government regulation of five-and-six. The managers took the first play, said that they planned to contribute enough to the Public Welfare Board to make up for the National Lottery deficit. That left the next move to the Government...