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...horse racing, Butazolidin is commonly used to relieve sore-legged horses -such as Dancer's Image, born with "mushy" (swollen) ankles-and permit them to train without pain. A normally sore horse will usually run better if his legs do not hurt, and unscrupulous trainers have used Butazolidin to run such animals "hot and cold"-sometimes giving them the drug, sometimes withholding it, in order to vary the horses' performance and affect the betting odds. To stop that practice, every major racing state now requires that no trace of Butazolidin remain in a horse's system...
...tantalizing, is whether without the "bute", Dancer's Image could still have mustered his stretch charge against the 2-to-1 favorite Forward Pass, who now receives the trophy, the $122,600, and the shot at the Triple Crown. Dancer's Image has been bothered all his life with sore ankles, and if the "bute" did anything, it alleviated the pain which might have prevented him from giving his best effort...
...fight to establish the lead in the mile and one-quarter race. The question in the stretch would simply be whether the late-running Dancer's Image would be able to catch the tiring Forward Pass. It is a tough assignment for any horse; for a sore-ankled champion, tougher still...
Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, who was instrumental in organizing the committee, shared that confidence. Though his enthusiasm was at a low ebb several weeks ago when he declared, "To use an old Kentucky ex pression, I suppose I am just plain track sore," now Morton was ebulliently predicting that in a short time the committee would succeed in mustering broad support for Rockefeller's candidacy. Added Morton: "If we can't do it in four weeks, then we might as well give up. We'll have more delegates lined up in four weeks than...