Word: trotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Edgar Clyde ("Skinnay") Ennis Jr., 55, popular bandleader of the jive-and-jump era, a product of Hal Kemp's offbeat collegiate jazz band at the University of North Carolina in the 1920s (other students: Kay Kyser, John Scott Trotter), who became the big noise nationwide on Bob Hope's radio shows of the 1940s; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Beverly Hills...
...late teens, Dancer worked as a groom, mucking out stalls at New York's Roosevelt Raceway, and got himself a cot in the racetrack's tack room to cut expenses. Married at 20, he borrowed $250 from his bride to buy a crippled seven-year-old trotter named Candor that he patiently nursed back to health and trained on snow-covered bridle paths in New Jersey. Candor repaid him by winning $12,000 in three years, and Dancer built a five-room ranch house at New Egypt...
...racing tactics ("I like to get out front fast and stay there"), crowd the paddock before each race pleading: "Hey, Dancer! You feelin! O.K. tonight! Hey, Dancer! Win us a few, huh?" His eight-year-old gelding, Su Mac Lad, has won more money ($567,849) than any other trotter in history, in 1961 became the only U.S. horse to win the Roosevelt International, and two weeks ago was named 1962's Harness Horse of the Year. Henry T. Adios, another Dancer-trained colt, is this year's pacing champion, was runner...
Just a Fox Trotter. Beyond fashions and fandom, there was action at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that made for a scene straight from Currier & Ives. One morning Jackie bundled Caroline and her nursery-school playmates into their snowsuits and led them out on the White House lawn. There waited Caroline's pony, Macaroni, who had been brought up from Glen Ora and was now hitched to a shiny black sleigh. Everybody piled in, and with Jackie handling the reins, the sleigh went jingling three times around the snowswept grounds. Afterwards, Jackie led Macaroni up to the French doors...
...Aching with the muscular miseries early in the season. Trotter Harlan Dean came from behind in both heats to win the Hambletonian. Kentucky Derby of harness racing, on the concrete-hard clay oval at Du Quoin, Ill. With Driver Jimmy Arthur in the sulky, the three-year-old colt set a record with a combined clocking of 3:57! in the two heats. Harlan Dean's purse...