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...record fool you. The next time this horse is entered against a sharp classy New York sprinter with a seemingly mediocre record--beware! Indeed, MISTY RUN, a recruit from last year's Saratoga claiming ranks--a horse who has acquitted himself favorably against tough New York opposition--may fill the ticket...
Unlike Citation, who won in a breeze over a middling field, Majestic Prince was not wanting for competition in the six-horse field. Rokeby Stable's Arts and Letters, the tireless little sprinter who challenged the Prince right down to the wire in the Derby and the Preakness, figured to be an even stronger contender at the longer distance. Then there was Dike, the game, never-quit colt who, with five weeks' rest, was more than up to staging one of his patented come-from-nowhere finishes...
Harmon is the second sophomore to be chosen captain of a Harvard team for next year. During the winter, the swimmers elected Mike Cahalan, a freestyle sprinter, to lead them in he next season...
...Yardlings will probably sweep the weights with Jack Driscoll earning victories in both the shot put and the hammer throw. Sprinter Ed Diamond also has a good chance to record a double...
...95th Kentucky Derby may well be the smallest since nine thoroughbreds ran for the roses in 1963. Not that the 1969 crop of three-year-olds is unimpressive. It is just that the Derby promises to be a runaway race between two strapping chestnut colts-one an undefeated sprinter from the West, the other an erratic stretch runner out of the East...