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...Lucky Debonair: the $30,400 Blue Grass Stakes, tune-up for this week's Kentucky Derby; at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. The heavy favorite at 3-10, Ada L. Rice's colt charged into the lead rounding the last turn, fought off Earl Allen's fast-closing Swift Ruler to win by half a length. In another Derby prep, Raymond Guest's Tom Rolfe, a son of Ribot, the Man o' War of Europe, raced to a 1 3/4-length victory over Native Charger in the Stepping Stone Purse at Churchill Downs...
...Price is a featured performer in Roar of the Grcasepaint--Smell of the Crowd, the new Anthony Newley musical currently on tour in a pre-Broadway tune-up. The Variety reviewer singled out Price's "lusty, full-voiced" singing of "Feeling Good" as the production's "real musical click." That's Price's only song, but it indicates well a little of what...
...Australia's Roy Emerson, 27: the London Grass Court tennis tournament, last big tune-up for Wimbledon, with a skin-of-the-teeth victory over Tomas Lejus, 22, first Russian ever to reach the finals of a major tennis tournament. Unseeded and unheralded, Lejus beat Mexico's Rafael Osuna in the semifinals, played Emerson almost even for 90 min. before losing...
...groups will leave Cambridge on Thursday, and will stop off in Marsh field, Massachusetts, for a week's tune-up. Their first appearance will be on June 16 in Cleveland, where they will perform Handel's Israel in Egypt with the Cleveland Summer Orchestra...
...Downs and Devil Diver finished way up the track. Like every other jockey, Shoemaker has heard that story at least a dozen times, and to test his own judgment, he flew into Lexington last week to ride Hill Rise for the first time in the Forerunner Purse, a Derby tune-up. It was not much of a race: awed by Hill Rise's credentials, so many rival owners scratched their horses that the thoughtful Keeneland Downs management canceled all betting. Otherwise the odds on Hill Rise might have been something like 1-100. At post time, only two colts...