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...Pete Curran is at present slowed up with several injuries, Geick has moved into the top position. Sophomore Pete Dow, who managed to make the London trip last year as a freshman, and Norm Gougen appear most likely to give support, while Bob Twitchell might shape up as a sprinter before the season is over...
...gamble that Lloyd's of London took when it paid Movieman William Goetz a $250,000 insurance claim and took possession of his crippled sprinter, Your Host (TIME, April 9), looked as though it was going to pay off. Last week the four-year-old stallion was feeling chipper enough to get a new pair of shoes for the first time since he fractured four bones in his right elbow in a racing spill early this year. If he continues to improve at the same rate, Your Host, winner of ten stakes and $384,795, will stand at stud...
Meanwhile a depleted freshman track team travels to Exeter in an attempt to maintain their undefeated record. The Yardlings will be without the services of sprinter Pete Terry, hurdler and high jumper Ty Smith, and pole vaulter Myron Hoffer. In an effort to offset these losses Captain Paul Sheats will run in the 100 and 220 in addition to his usual 440 and Phil Meyers will move up from...
...more prominent freshmen is sprinter Pete Dow. Dow's showing during the winter season was nothing sensational. But against Andover he turned in a 10.2 seconds time in the 100-yard-dash...
When the pick of the nation's three-year-olds lined up for the Kentucky Derby a year ago, the name of Your Host was on every horseman's lips. The white-stockinged California sprinter, the favorite at post time, ran out of gas after leading for a mile, and finished ninth. But after that, he seldom ran out of the money. Your Host came back to beat such horses as Hill Prince and Ponder, had earned $384,795 for Movieman-Owner William Goetz when he broke an elbow bone in a spill at Santa Anita early this...