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Each horse is impeccably sired: Never Bend by the Irish stallion Nasrullah (other offspring: Nashua, Bold Ruler, Jaipur), Candy Spots by the Argentine stakes winner Nigromante. As a matter of fact, the two horses seem so closely matched that even the oddsmakers are having trouble. Last week in Tijuana, Mexico bookies quoted Never Bend at 2 to 1 to win the Kentucky Derby, Candy Spots...
Main reason was that the Big South like an untamed stallion, does its best to shake men loose. Eighty-mile-an-hour winds roar and whistle in its crags and canyons, rain drenches it (sometimes as much as 72 in. in three months), earth quakes shudder through the ground, and termites thrive and multiply. The people who came to such a country and stayed were, first of all, hardy, lonely pioneers and, secondly, oddball fugitives from the world of modern convenience...
...Lone Ranger's Indian friend Tonto. Faithfully tuned in by uncounted millions of schoolchildren for 29 years, the ringing prologue ("From out of the West come the thundering hoofbeats . . .'') and the Lone Ranger's cry of "Hi Ho, Silver, Away!" to his great white stallion, became part of the American idiom...
...acre cattle ranch in Arizona. He owns two Cadillacs, six tuxedos, 20 sports coats and 25 suits (all hand-tailored), lives in a swank Pasadena apartment. When he retires, Willie expects to expand his breeding operations: he already owns a stable of broodmares and a share in the stallion Round Table. But he is in no hurry to quit. "Retire?" asks Jockey Shoemaker. "Look at Arcaro and Longden. Why, I'd be ashamed to retire while they're still riding. I'm young, and I'm getting better all the time...
...helped Barbara Hutton divest herself of Cary Grant, took the side of Lady Sylvia Ashley against Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe against Joe DiMaggio. In his most bizarre case, he defended the life of a horse named Tom Boy whose owner's will had decreed that the stallion should be destroyed to save him from mistreatment; and in perhaps his most celebrated case, he won an acquittal for Charlie Chaplin, charged with a violation of the Mann Act for transporting Starlet Joan Berry to New York. (He did not defend Chaplin when the actor lost the paternity suit that prompted...