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Attached for President Truman's perusal was the required Budget Bureau summary of the bill and the fact behind it. Madison was a California farmer who had rented to the Forest Service a stallion known as Man of War Jr. One night on the trail, Man of War Jr. felt an urge. He chewed through his tether and ran off to find a mate. It was his last run, for he got tangled in the rope trailing from his neck and died of strangulation. Farmer Madison billed the Forest Service...
Most eyes fell on a six-year-old chestnut stallion named Wing Commander, the Man o' War of five-gaiters, beaten only once since he was a youngster of three. On Wing Commander's back was a wiry little man named Earl Teater, who had taught him everything he knew about "gaitin'." His owner, Mrs. Frances Dodge Van Lennep, watched from a seat...
Last week, in the courtyard of Des Moines' handsome new Art Center, lowans gaped at a bronze stallion the likes of which had never been seen before. Mounted in the center of a spacious reflecting pool was the latest work of Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, a magnificent, larger-than-life Pegasus. Broad-beamed, with hefty wings spread, it zoomed through space at the angle of a sloop in a summer squall. Soaring precariously above was the horse's 1,000-lb. bronze rider, Greek adventurer Bellerophon (see cut), with arms outstretched and nine stout bolts through one foot...
...sterile, his ailing front leg was patched up and he was sent back to the races. Last week, after one defeat in a tryout race a fortnight ago, he got back to winning form. In the $50,000-added Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct, the six-year-old, clubfooted chocolate stallion looked good as new as he won over Vulcan's Forge in 2:02 4/5, only three-fifths of a second off. the stake record for a mile and a quarter. quarter...