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...such behavior. Says Straus: "The reasons are mixed-psychological, sociological, situational." The head of the household, for example, may feel under particular stress because he has been out of work too long. Violence may also be an echo of the past. Explains Straus: "When Mommy gives her two-year-old a slap for putting something dirty in his mouth, he is learning from infancy that those who love you hit you." Another trigger may be war or inflation. Says Gelles gloomily: "If heating goes up to a buck a gallon and we have a real recession, it's going...
...marvelous race by the inexperienced colt and his veteran jockey, Ruben Hernandez. Coastal had raced but three times this year after an eye injury late in his two-year-old season forced a long layoff. He was fresh and ready to run the Belmont distance, and run he did. Hernandez held him off the lead through the first mile of the race, rating him gently behind the leaders, well outside of traffic. Meanwhile, Spectacular Bid's jockey, Ron Franklin, pushed his colt to the front as the horses moved out of the clubhouse turn and into the long backstretch...
Other experts suggest that the number of top horses contending for the Crown may have been diminished by the rapid growth of racing days nationwide. Many horses are raced out by the end of their two-year-old campaigns and retired. The breeders of others now pick and choose among rich purses scattered across 15 states rather than risk everything for show money in the Triple Crown events in a year when a really fine horse like Spectacular Bid turns up. In 1948 there were 696 stakes and feature races, only nine with purses...
...Leader Robert Stanfield. He resigned to run for the House of Commons from the Alberta district of Rocky Mountain; he won his seat and, shortly afterward, his future wife when 20-year-old Maureen McTeer volunteered to work for him. The couple married in 1973 and have a two-year-old daughter. Maureen, who continues to use her maiden name and is pursuing her own career as a lawyer, campaigned vigorously for her husband during the past election...
...Harry Meyerhoff's Hawksworth Farm. "Black and blue," says Meyerhoff, a retired Baltimore real estate developer, "is what happens to horse owners." More accurately, black and blue is what happens to Spectacular Bid's opponents. Winner of the Eclipse Award as the nation's best two-year-old colt last year, the horse has rolled up five straight victories this spring, running away from all challengers in the East. All together, Spectacular Bid has been victorious in ten out of twelve starts. In the latest win, last week's seven-length romp in the Blue Grass...