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...Last week Band No. 1, with 21-year-old Freddy Bennett as leader, played in Providence, R. I., moved on to Hartford, Conn. Under the guidance of William Blake, who has been with the Orphanage for 38 years, Band No. 2 had been at Saratoga, N. Y. where the horseracing season opened early this month (TIME, Aug. 12). Day & night at the race track, at baseball games and on the spa's Broadway the hard-working youngsters played spirituals, sweet ballads and hot arrangements of tunes like Dinah and Sweet Sue on their rusty cornets, trombones, French horns, drums. Bystanders...
...Last year Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane was the big Saratoga winner. Last week, though her famed Cavalcade was still trying to get over his injuries in time to race Discovery later in the month...
...about racing flew in from Hollywood. So did John Hay Whitney who missed the opening day's races for the first time in years. Governor and Mrs. Herbert Lehman motored from Albany the fourth day of the meet. Sportsman F. Ambrose Clark, who spends the night at his Saratoga cottage only when it rains, commuted by plane from Cooperstown. In the crowd that saw Al Vanderbilt's Postage Due win the United States Hotel Stakes were New Jersey's Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Producer George White, Sportsman Joseph E. Widener and, wearing the aged panama...
...improving the breed of racehorses often seems only incidental to Saratoga's racing-season pastimes of dining & dancing at half a dozen night clubs, overdrinking in countless bars, recuperating with the dubious aid of mineral waters, betting on anything from the next race to three dice in a bird cage, horses are still the focus of the town's excitement. Last week, the feature race of the first day of the meet was the Flash, for two-year-olds...
...famed Ringmaster John G. Cavanagh), made Postage Due the favorite. The horse Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's trainer, Tom Healey, predicts will be better than Equipoise, a big chestnut colt named Red Rain, they dismissed contemptuously at 6-to-1. After the Mash the yapping of bookmakers that kept Saratoga's sparrows awake was mostly about Red Rain. Left at the post and running a miserable last, eight lengths behind the field at the half-mile post, he had suddenly come to life running into the stretch, passed all eight horses within the last three furlongs, won the race...