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...chalk players, naturally, had known it all along. As they queued up to cash their mutuel tickets (the favorite paid $5.20 for $2), they talked of another Kentucky tradition: "Never bet against the son of a Derby winner in a Derby." Needles' sire, Ponder, ran off with the Derby in 1949. And just to make the old saw stick, Ponder's sire, Pensive, turned the trick...
...Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree practically put away. "Devon Loch wins," said the bulletin that went out on press association wires, but then: "Cancel! Cancel!'' Suddenly Devon Loch had slipped and fallen. The unexpected winner: a ioo-to-7 long shot named E.S.B. (for its sire, English Summer, and dam, Bider...
...just another court composer, more unconventional and therefore worse than scores of his competitors. The elderly Haydn recognized his genius; so did the young Beethoven. Not so Emperor Joseph II, Mozart's patron, who once said of a Mozart aria: "It has too many notes in it." ("Sire, just as many as there ought to be," Mozart retorted.) Nor did Mozart's wife Constanze (younger sister of his old love, Aloysia) see his greatness. She had her own creating to do. Of their nine years of marriage, she spent all but three pregnant, delivered six sickly children. Four...
...Miss Mildred Woolwine and her partners resold the lot at Keeneland, Ky. for a 125% profit. With Segula, dam of Nashua, bringing a record auction price for a U.S. broodmare ($126,000), Kentucky Horsewoman Woolwine and her friends collected a total of $924,100. Nashua's sire, Nasrullah, also proved that he was worth a pretty penny. A syndicate headed by Kentucky's Thoroughbred Breeder A. B. ("Bull") Hancock paid the Belair Stud estate $251,100 for a slim one-seventh share of the great stallion's services, a price that estimates Nasrullah's total value...
...Goshen, N.Y., in harness racing's Kentucky Derby, Scott Frost, a three-year-old California bay colt, took the $85,000 Hambletonian. Time for final heat: 2 min. 3/5 sec., only 3/5 sec. slower than the record set by the winner's sire, Hoot...