Word: stagehand
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...make-believe setting of California's Santa Anita Park, Dauber had finished second to Stagehand in the $60,000 Santa Anita Derby. In the carnival surroundings at Churchill Downs last fortnight, he had finished second to Lawrin in the $57,000 Kentucky Derby. But last week, in the patrician atmosphere of Maryland's old Pimlico, where the spectators' blood lines are almost as genteel as the horses', Dauber apparently felt at home...
Since Lawrin's owner had not seen fit to nominate him for the Preakness (for which nominations closed a month ago) and since Stagehand was not in condition to run, Dauber was a 3-to-2 favorite-chiefly because of his magnificent stretch run in the Kentucky Derby. Through the rain and mist, 25,000 dripping spectators watched Dauber start unostentatiously, as a well-mannered Whitney colt would be expected to do. But going into the backstretch, Dauber began to make a spectacle of himself-not in front, but trailing behind (in next to last place in the field...
Dauber's victory was worth $51,875 and brought his 1938 winnings to $69,175. second only to those,of Stagehand. Owner Du Pont already had a neat profit on the chestnut colt he bought from Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney...
Forming long queues at the 500 parimutuel windows scattered around the Downs last week, amateur handicappers, who would have been playing Stagehand, were getting their money down fast on last fortnight's Wood Memorial winner, Fighting Fox, full brother of Gallant Fox. 1930 Derby winner. Kentucky hard boots liked Bull Lea, who had broken two track records in his two races at local Keeneland this spring. Hollywood visitors (like Joan Bennett, Jack Pearl, Joe E. Brown) made sentimental bets on Myron Selznick's Can't Wait. Long-shot players took a chance on Elooto, named after Owner...
...Because in winter-book betting a player loses his money when a horse is scratched, bookmakers last week pocketed $1,000,000 that was wagered on Stagehand...