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Candy Spots was clearly the better horse, and his Futurity performance suggested that he would decimate any horse his age in the country at longer distances, but Never Bend was nonetheless voted the leading two-year-old in the nation last year. In 13 races he has won ten and never finished worse than third; Never Bend's lifetime earnings of $502,000 make him the richest horse ever to compete in the Derby...
...real longshot sleeper in the Derby is an unheralded three-year-old named Chateaugay: after a mediocre season as a two-year-old, he has won three straight this year over extremely lacklustre competition. A glance at his times makes Chateaugay look very good on paper. Candy spots has raced a mile-and-one-eight in 1:51.6; Never Bend's best at the route was 1:49.4; No Robbery took the Wood in 1:49.2. Chateaugay won his last race, the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland, in a phenomenal...
Most of the excitement of the afternoon was provided by the two-year-old who broke through the circle of on-lookers and advanced pell-mell on the small group of folksingers. An embarrassed mother rescued him before he had a chance to step on any guitars...
Because the thalidomide babies have above average intelligence, Dr. Hauberg and his colleagues are already theorizing about "some mysterious process of natural compensation." Parents, too, are invariably impressed by the progress of their children. Last week one mother watched proudly as her two-year-old son Kurt, who has only tiny arm stumps and whose feet are attached to his buttocks, reached for a ball with his new, artificial arm. "He's never done this before," she marveled. In another room, a four-year-old boy earnestly practiced opening and closing belt buckles. "At first we thought everything...
...money. Even discounting Detroit's usual enthusiasm, the '63 models are better than those of any previous year in terms of styling, quality and variety. While prices have barely increased since 1958, the manufacturers' now-standard warranty of two years has added about $50 to the value of each car by lowering repair costs. Another inducement to buying comes from the strength of the used-car market; two-year-old models, when traded in for new ones, bring $50 to $100 more now than they did 18 months...