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...when Bill Mazeroski hit a home run in the last inning of the last game, and his Chateaugay won the 1963 Kentucky Derby at long-shot odds of 9-1. Galbreath's luck seemed to sour after he paid $1,350,000 to lease the undefeated Italian stallion Ribot for stud duty, improving the stock at his farm in Lexington, Ky. When his original lease ran out last year, about all Galbreath had to show for his money was five years of feed bills and a sore-legged two-year-old colt named Graustark...
...smallest horse in the field (at 15.2 hands and less than 1,000 lbs.), was the sentimental second choice, mostly because three of his four 1965 victories had come on Maryland's deep, sandy tracks. His breeding probably had something to do with it too. Sired by Ribot, two-time winner of the Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe, Tom Rolfe was foaled by the stakes-winning mare Pocahontas. Owner Raymond Guest, the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, named him after the son of the real Pocahontas, who grew tobacco in the days when smoking was still a social...
Purposeful Maneuver. Along the rail. Ogden Phipps's Dapper Dan, another son of Ribot and runner-up to Lucky Debonair in the Derby, began to make his move. Jockey Turcotte remembered. Whipping righthanded, he drove Tom Rolfe straight toward the rail as if he intended to run right into Dapper Dan. At the last second before a collision. Turcotte turned his colt away. The maneuver served its purpose: for the barest instant. Dapper Dan flinched and broke stride-and in that instant Tom Rolfe won the race. Milo Valenzuela, who rode Dapper Dan, claimed foul. The stewards did their...
...heavy favorite at 3-10, Ada L. Rice's colt charged into the lead rounding the last turn, fought off Earl Allen's fast-closing Swift Ruler to win by half a length. In another Derby prep, Raymond Guest's Tom Rolfe, a son of Ribot, the Man o' War of Europe, raced to a 1 3/4-length victory over Native Charger in the Stepping Stone Purse at Churchill Downs...
...plays just as hard as he works, has sunk more than $5,000,000 into his hobbies. On his big white-fenced farms outside Columbus and Lexington, Ky. (both are named Darby Dan Farm), he has assembled some of the world's finest thoroughbred breeding stock. He got Ribot, the "Horse of the Decade," from Ribot's Italian owners on a five-year lease for $1,350,000. He has already set one mark in racing: he paid the world's record price-$2,000,000-for Swaps, 1955 Kentucky Derby winner, hopes Swaps will sire...