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There was also a eight-oar championship race at Orchard Beach, which Harvard did not enter. The race was won by St. Catherine's (Ontario) Rowing Club, which is Canada's Olympic entry. The Canadian boat bested Vesper by over a length, but it was not the same top nine men which Vesper put up in a losing effort to Harvard at the Olympic Trials in California last month...
Coach Harry Parker had divided his eight-oared shell into a four with (Coxswain) and a four without, and they have been practicing that way for three weeks. Each boat finished third in its weekend race...
Harvard also entered a junior varsity quintet in the four with race, and the boat finished fourth, just behind the other Harvard boat. JV oarsmen Monk Terry and Charlie Hamlin entered the pair without race, finished third...
Named Dark Mirage, the filly went to the post 15 times in 1967, won only two races and $19,906-barely enough to repay her purchase price and upkeep. Her first start this year as a three-year-old was equally unimpressive: she finished fourth, beaten by 7½ lengths. What has happened since beggars belief. Dark Mirage, almost certainly the smallest thoroughbred in training in the U.S., has not lost a race...
Delaware Park officials, rather than pay off the legal minimum of 10? for every dollar wagered on Dark Mirage, declared the race a betless exhibition. Dark Mirage danced home first by two lengths to score her ninth victory in a row and boost her 1968 bankroll...