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...admirers say, the "Little Iron Man"-as the cocky, compact (5 ft. 6 in., 150 lbs.) French Canadian is known-will race any combination of two wheels and four legs. One of Filion's alltime favorites was a horse called Rabbit, an equine outpatient that, as one railbird recalls, had "four lame legs and so many bone chips he sounded like a crap game." Filion, who won 17 races with him in '68, says fondly: "He was the gamest horse I ever...
...most dyed-in-the-silks thoroughbred fans, quarter-horse racing is not horse racing at all. When it comes to purity of breeding, the quarter-horse wins no prizes; a chunky, bandy-legged brute, it looks almost grotesque next to the sleek, stately thoroughbred. Besides, what railbird wants to bother with a race that covers only 350 to 550 yds. and is over before he can focus his binoculars? The answer is the 2,000,000 quarter-horse devotees who showed up at 100 tracks in 26 states last year to watch the husky hybrids dash to photo finish after...
...buffs who come to tiny (pop. 5,000) Charles Town are the same breed-refugees from the big-city race tracks of the North. They travel to West Virginia because New York and Maryland tracks are closed, because Florida is too expensive and too far away. Explains one hardbitten railbird: "Charles Town is the only wheel in town...
Many a political railbird, convinced that he has the presidential nominations all doped out (Nixon and Kennedy), turned last week to the vice-presidential sweepstakes, where the horses were darker and the odds wilder. Moving up on the dopesheets last week...
...year-old owned by Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, came surging back to twice beat the five-year-old Round Table, racing's biggest money winner, leads the nation's thoroughbreds in earnings this season with $537,004, last week was named horse of the year by the railbird's Bible, the Morning Telegraph...