Word: three-year-old
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Like Atlas, the Greentree Stable's Tom Fool is constantly being made to carry the weight of the world on his back. At least so it seems to Greentree's Trainer John Gaver, the man who sends the handsome bay colt to the races. As a three-year-old Tom Fool was ailing, and never got a chance to run in the Kentucky Derby or the other three-year-old classics. But this year, a filled out, mature four-year-old, Tom Fool is already being talked of as one of the top handicap horses of all time...
Pleased Trainer John Gaver, after being congratulated on the victory, produced a stock race-track reply: "Good horses make good trainers." Tom Fool's victory revived talk of a "dream race" between Alfred Vanderbilt's champion three-year-old Native Dancer and the champion four-year-old handicap horse. On a weight-for-age basis today, Tom Fool would carry 126 Ibs. in a mile race, the Dancer...
...York's Aqueduct track, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Native Dancer, running at the rock-bottom odds of 1 to 20, romped to an easy victory in the mile-and-a-quarter Dwyer Stakes. The three-year-old colt's $38,100 purse raised his total winnings to $560,845, made him the sixth biggest money-winner of all time, just behind Whirlaway...
...Belmont Park, N.Y., the three-year-old filly Grecian Queen beat eight others to win the 37th running of the classic Coaching Club American Oaks ($63,600) by a nose...
...Nationalist South Africa, Prime Minister Daniel Malan ordered South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg, to obey his three-year-old law, which compels segregation of blacks, browns and whites. Under the law, 70,000 blacks and 22,000 Indians, many of them prosperous shopkeepers, will be ejected from their homes and stores in downtown Johannesburg and moved, without a penny's compensation, to Jim Crow shantytowns far away from the white suburbs...