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When the crowd got its first glimpse of Alsab, pounding past the stands, he was in next-to-last place. In the backstretch, he was still next-to-last. Coming into the home turn, Jockey Basil James gave the Sab the whip. Like the Alsab of old, he began to sweep around the field-past the Orphan, past Apache, past Shut Out, gaining with every stride of his short legs. At the wire, Alsab was a full length in front of Requested and Sun Again. His time: 1 min. 57 sec., a new record for the 52-year-old Preakness...
Strong hint went winging back from the U.S. last week with the Army Purchasing Commission under Brigadier General Eduardo T. Lapez. Like the naval twin under Rear Admiral Sabá H. Sueyro which preceded it by a fortnight, it had been invited to Washington last December to discuss the details of arms promised by the U.S. Like its twin, it returned emptyhanded...
...tale goes the story of Alsab, son of a onetime race horse named Good Goods and a $90 mare. As a yearling, he looked so worthless he was knocked down for only $700 at the Saratoga auction sales. Last week, in front of the insect-proof cage that surrounds Sab's stall at Hialeah Park, his owner, Lawyer Albert Sabath of Chicago, set up champagne for hundreds of two-legged guests, drank a toast to the colt that has already won $110,610 for him, the colt with whom he would not part for a quarter of a million...
...lost only one race (to Upset) in his career; Sab has already lost seven. But Big Red's whole career consisted of only 21 races, while Sab, in one year of racing, started 22 times, ran on eleven different tracks in seven different States. Moreover, he has run farther and faster than Man o' War did as a two-year-old. His 1:16 for 6½ furlongs is only one-fifth of a second over the world's record set by four-year-old Snark in 1937; his 1:35 2/5 for a mile...
Many a juvenile champion has later proved to be a flash in the pan. But horsemen have a hunch that Sab will be even more remarkable as a three-year-old than he was at two. In the winter book for next spring's Kentucky Derby, he was quoted last week a 3-to-1 favorite, shortest odds ever quoted so early in the year...