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...before he got around to quitting, Pensive won the 1944 Kentucky Derby for him (at a $16.20 mutuel). That summer, Pensive bowed a tendon and was retired to stud. (He died last week.) By then Ben was busy with a Calumet filly named Twilight Tear, who struck a stride which finally carried her to 1944's Horse-of-the-Year title...
...Jockey Brooks, who had never ridden Ponder, got a fill-in on his mount. Said Jones: "I don't think he'll win, but he'll beat more horses than beat him. He's slow to settle down to running and easy to knock off stride. He'll give you one good run when you ask for it." Ponder was the calmest of the 14 horses that paraded out to the tune of My Old Kentucky Home...
...long black-and-green Daimler, sporting the British royal crest on its radiator, drew up to a doorway on London's Basil Street one day last week. Out stepped a silver-haired lady in a flowered saucepan hat, to stride regally through the swinging doors. It was the 100th birthday of Harrods, one of the world's great department stores, and 81-year-old Queen Mary, a customer for more than 40 years, thought it a proper time to drop...
...People Speak. The Travel Expert requires a more complex ploy. Just as the expert is getting into full stride on his visit to Vladivostok, the Lifeman clears his throat...
Columbia may have hit its stride now. On Wednesday it stopped Yale, and yesterday it exploded against league-leading Dartmouth...