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...crowd, from the stable owners and boxholders to the people in the infield, is tougher than the one at Saratoga. No officials are more officious, no bookmakers more sinister.* But Saratoga, oldest and physically most beautiful U. S. track, considers itself the musnud of U. S. horse racing. As its annual month of races and sales drew to a close last week, Saratoga was loyally if obliquely defended against the encroachments of newer horse parks by one of its most representative habitu...
...Richest Saratoga stake is the Hopeful ($25,000 guaranteed). Of recent years, newer tracks have made a practice of publicizing themselves and attracting famous thoroughbreds by posting immense added prizes for handicaps. The three-year-old Santa Anita (Calif.) track currently gives the biggest, $100,000. Suffolk Downs (Mass.) and Narragansett Park (R. I.), both comparatively new plants, plan equal purses next season. To make sure that great horses will enter these races, handicappers at new tracks narrow the limits of weights imposed on the entries, so that a very good horse need not carry much more poundage than...
What Mr. Whitney would like to see more of, he said, was weight-for-age races (Saratoga puts on three of the nation's four) which would encourage owners of good older horses, who are usually handicapped out of racing by the time they are four or five years old, to keep them in training...
Carol Layton (Jean Harlow), bright sprig of an old family of Saratoga horse fanciers, comes home from England engaged to a New York socialite named Hartley Madison (Walter Pidgeon), whose bankroll is more impressive than his sophistication. To Carol's father's crony, Bookmaker Duke Bradley (Clark Gable) this is good news indeed. He takes it for granted that Carol's only possible object in becoming affianced to a rich nincompoop is to provide financial succor for her father and his friends. Actually Duke, who falls in love with Carol, is quite right but Carol...
...Saratoga was practically complete when its star died last month of cerebral edema. For the few remaining sequences, mostly in the middle of the picture, director Jack Conway used longshots of a double so adroitly that cinemaddicts are not likely to detect Miss Harlow's absence. Good shots: the flamingos at Miami's Hialeah Park; Duke Bradley's assistant (Cliff Edwards) singing a race-track ballad "The Horse with the Dreamy Eyes," in a crowded car on the track special from Maryland; Bradley making book...