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Nugent's background, although a little tonier, is similar. Her father was a prominent New Jersey lawyer, and he did not have to struggle to send her to Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., which at that time was also an expensive women's college. Nugent, 41, majored in drama as well, and she also took several low-paying jobs so that she could work in the theater, chiefly backstage. Nederlander reasoned that her backstage technical expertise neatly complemented McCann's experience in the front office...
While the owners feuded, Niatross faltered. He lost back-to-back starts, the only defeats of his 32-race career. Trailing in a race at Saratoga on July 5, Galbraith tapped Niatross with a whip. It was the first time the colt had ever been whipped. Startled, he bolted over the railing, sprawling with a sickening thud on the in field grass. Miraculously, he escaped with a bruise. Six days later, Niatross raced at New Jersey's Meadowlands and finished fourth...
...British left Boston in 1776, and the Revolution shifted to other sections of the newly-united nation. But in October of 1777, Cambridge again played a part, this time less glamorous--after Gen. Burgoyne and 5700 men surrendered at Saratoga, the colonial leaders decided to deport them. While they were waiting for ships home, the men were quartered in Cambridge. Officers lodged with civilians, to the distinct displeasure of some crowded patriots. As the war drew to a close, Massachusetts leaders gathered in Cambridge to draw up the Bay State's constitution, a document that later served as a model...
...York's Saratoga race track made much of it at first, what with the fracas over the sudden withdrawal of Derby Winner Genuine Risk from the week's big race. But gradually word slipped out that another star was present. Riding an uninspiring gelding, Rubla Khan, in the third was none other than Mrs. Fred Astaire, back from a month's postnuptial vacation for what she says will be her final year in silks. "This is my favorite track," says the 35-year-old jockey, a.k.a. Robyn Smith. "It's the oldest in America...
...more sordid picture of the blandishments of Saratoga emerged in a Brooklyn courtroom last week. Testifying in the race-fixing trial of onetime Jockey Con Errico, 58, another ex-jock, Ben Feliciano, described a bribe attempt at Saratoga in the summer of 1974. Feliciano was riding in several races that day. He had gone to the toilet in the jockeys' dressing room when an unknown man walked into an adjoining stall. The man shoved an envelope containing a wad of bills across the tiles, told Feliciano that the money was his if he would simply "hold" -rein...