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...flow of blood. The G suit looks like a pair of close-fitting overalls, with five rubber bladders set in: one over the belly, two over the thighs, and a pair around the calves. Automatically inflated, these check the footward blood flow, and they can be deflated for straightaway flight...
...Dancer had won by racing only as hard as he pleased, and in his own way. He had still not shown how fast he can really run if pressed or cajoled into it. In his 21 races, he has equaled only one world's record (6½ furlongs on the straightaway in 1:14 2/5). Yet there was not a horseman around last week who dared risk his reputation by insisting that the Dancer could not, if he wanted to, write new times into the record. The Metropolitan proved that the Dancer could take on crack horses at a distance that...
...cars will still be ones that Cunningham and his fellow drivers know well: V-8 Chrysler engines in Cunningham bodies and frames, souped up to 330 h.p., that can accelerate from a dead stop to 110 m.p.h. in eleven seconds, reach top speeds of 160 m.p h. on a straightaway...
...familiar with the sharply angled turns where a miscue can send car and driver hurtling into trees. He knows the delicate little jog at Maison Blanche, almost midway in the long (2.7 mile) northwest straightaway-where the drivers are at flat-out top speed and where British-born Driver Tommy Cole spun out and was killed last year. "I was following right behind him," said Cunningham. "I saw a yellow flag and jammed on the brakes, and saw him lying on the road and his car rammed up against the gully. You have to concentrate like the devil...
Last week Royal Tan went up and over the final jump like a leprechaun, shook off Tudor Line's challenge in the straightaway, and won by a neck. Just a year ago, with another Irish steeplechaser named Early Mist, the Irish owner-trainer-jockey combination won England's 1O7th Grand National. Exulted Owner Griffin last week: "No other owner has ever won two consecutive Grand Nationals with different horses. Next year we'll try to make it three...