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...Lavelle ("Buddy") Ensor, famed jockey of ten years ago now "coming back": the third race at the opening day of Jamaica, N. Y., racetrack; up on Mrs. D. Lowe's Chief's Troubadour...
...second to Sun Beau's all-time record of $356.044. His disposition was eccentric but calm. He liked to roll in sand every day, had a special sand pile to do it in. At the post or when traveling, he was intelligently placid. A great subject of racetrack conversation was the method of Phar Lap's training. In the U. S., horses are given constant rigorous tests for speed. Phar Lap engaged in almost no speed trials at all. He cantered slowly for long distances to improve his stamina, stretch all his muscles slowly. U. S. turfmen expected that because...
Four hours by car, an hour and a half by plane from Hollywood, Agua Caliente is the most elaborate pleasure resort in North America. It was organized three years ago, largely by 34-year-old James Crofton who had previously been a racetrack barker at the squalid little border town of Tijuana, three miles farther...
...roulette, birdcage, chemin de fer, craps. There is small call for champagne cheaper than Mumm's Cordon Rouge. Agua Caliente's golf tournament-first prize $15,000-is the richest in the world. Even more of an attraction than these for Hollywood plutocrats has been the racetrack, which was constructed at a cost of $2,500,000 by removing part of a mountain. The Annual Agua Caliente Handicap, which was to have been run on March 20 and for which the great Australian horse Pharlap was entered this year, is the richest-$150,000 -horse race...
...Illinois racing to an honest plane at Arlington Park. Transforming Hialeah from a rundown track into the liveliest winter racing resort in the U. S., he caused $1,500,000 to be spent on improvements. Last week Mr. Widener was indignant over rivalry which came from a new Miami racetrack called Tropical Park, controlled by two Manhattan sports named Bill Dwyer and Bill Gallagher...