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...late summer, at least three blue-blooded young horses were running nose-and-nose for the two-year-old championship. The best finisher was chunky, bay Hill Prince, beaten only once-and that time by what his rider, Jockey Eddie Arcaro, confessed was "a damn bad ride." At Saratoga in August, a colt named Middle-ground outran everything in sight, and in the Midwest a streak of bay lightning known as Curtice was winning again & again. According to custom, the three of them should have had it out last week in the Belmont Futurity, the race that decides the juvenile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Speed & Foresight | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Veteran Post-Impressionist Pablo Picasso, 67, paused in the glare of the sun for an earthy, realistic photograph while strolling near his villa at Vallauris, near Cannes, with his twentyish mistress, Francoise Gillot, and their two-year-old son, Claude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Footloose | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

After that, for nightmarish minutes, he stalked the street like a murderous mechanical man. He shot at passing motorists, killed three people, wounded two more. He saw a two-year-old boy in a window, aimed, fired, killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Quiet One | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...two-year-old, Miss Tilly was an alltime high money winner, but this year, in nine starts, she had not won a race. Last week she made up for all that. In the second and deciding heat, Driver Egan kept her in hand all the way and she was first by five lengths. Miss Tilly took down the third largest winner's share ($37,617) of the second largest purse in Hambletonian history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Straight Heats | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...handsome chestnut two-year-old bounded out of the starting gate at Jamaica race track in the first race of his young life. His name was Air Lift, and he carried the brown & white colors of Texas' famous King Ranch. Horsemen had looked him over in the paddock with care and admiration. He was a full brother of Assault, who won the Triple Crown for King Ranch and Trainer Max Hirsch in 1946, and a son of Bold Venture, who won the Derby and Preakness in 1936. On his dam's side, he was descended from the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Son of Bold Venture | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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