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...other racetrack ramblings, Margo Argot was seen with Canonero's rider, sexy little Juan Avila, and the tete-a-tete got very close when she found that he was an Aries, just like herself. Some coincidence! Margo, a???ed in the fashion ??ge long pants in the Deanville style of the '30's, hails from the house country of Charlottesville and admits to being "just wild about horses." And their riders we might...

Author: By Elsie Wilson, | Title: Canonero II Slated to Be Triple Crown Winner | 6/4/1971 | See Source »

...horse racing, but each time Powell emerged unscathed. After a grand jury investigation into a stock purchase in a harness-racing corporation whose legislative cause he had championed, the exonerated Powell commented: "It wound up with the grand jurors wanting to know from me where they could buy racetrack stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Paul Powell's Nest Egg | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

Turning On at the Old Racetrack; A Short Guide to Horses and Dope

Author: By Jim Morgan, | Title: A Horse Is a Horse, Of Course, Of Course | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

Drugs can only be legally administered by a veterinarian but around the racetrack many drugs are given without the "doctor's orders." Trainers, a paranoid and calculating lot, seek the infinitesimal edge over their neighbor. They suspect their best friend of trying to beat them out of a purse and a winning bet, and as a defense they scheme 24 hours a day to protect themselves against chicanery. For a few of them the best defense is a good offense, and their rule is- if you don't get caught, you didn...

Author: By Jim Morgan, | Title: A Horse Is a Horse, Of Course, Of Course | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

...sworn statement by the cashier at the $100 window that he remembers a "tall, dark stranger" cashing in ten tickets together worth $50,000. This sort of thing does not happen often, but it does happen. Sometimes the track security agents working with the FBI (everyone licensed at a racetrack has his fingerprints taken), turn up the culprits...

Author: By Jim Morgan, | Title: A Horse Is a Horse, Of Course, Of Course | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

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