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...first four starts in 1966 as a two-year-old, swept six in one stretch in 1967. This year Dr. Fager has raced only in stakes events, romped to victory in such prestigious handicaps as Aqueduct's $108,000 Suburban, Saratoga's $53,500 Whitney and Chicago's $100,000 Washington Park, in which he set a new world record of 1 min. 32 1/5 sec. for the mile...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Saratoga Trunk (1945). Hollywood's version of Edna Ferber's 1941 bestseller about the romance between a roving gambler (Gary Cooper) and an exotic Creole (Ingrid Bergman). Repeat...
...weather of it. Take Marylou Whitney, whose husband Sonny (Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney to you) was a principal backer of Pan American World Airways, Gone With the Wind and enough other ventures to qualify him as a one-man conglomerate. She has five children and five establishments in Lexington, Ky., Saratoga, Manhattan, Manitoba, Canada, and 100,000 acres of the Adirondacks. So Marylou and her two secretaries (one in New York and one in Kentucky) spend a lot of time in a welter of lists, files and details. She likes to dash off notes to the help about buying...
...them). Anyway, they got $812,275 for their Chinese porcelains and French antiques at Parke-Bernet, instead of the mere $500,000 they had counted on. Jewels are more durable than porcelain, but they're easily heisted; Sonny and Marylou Whitney got robbed of $780,000 worth at Saratoga a year ago, and their insurance premiums must be ferocious. Coins can be better guarded, but someone recently stole Willis du Font's collection only the other day he got back a single coin worth $100,000. His cousin, Alexis I. du Pont, may be better off with his collection...
...turfmen, Belmont Park-just over the New York City boundary in Long Island's Nassau County-has always been a track apart. Not that the 63-year-old park is all that venerable; Saratoga is 41 years its senior. True, it is the setting for some of the most prestigious U.S. races, including the Belmont Stakes, traditionally the third gem in the Triple Crown. But what made Belmont really special was that society's horsemen built it to their own specifications. So overwhelming was the track's mood of genteel opulence that it even awed...