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...Grey was in bad trouble. After a brisk nine-furlong workout at Belmont one morning last week, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Native Dancer (TIME, May 31) pulled up with a sore right forefoot. Trainer Bill Winfrey could feel a suspicious warmth just above the hoof, but X rays showed no internal injury. Two days later, the colt galloped a couple of miles on the training track and snorted home with no sign of pain. Relieved, Winfrey began to step up the Dancer's training, but after a three-furlong breeze, the Big Grey came back in such distress...
...Vanderbilt would really like to do neither. He wants to try something else?take his horse to England, where Vanderbilt was born, and prove the Dancer not just a U.S. but a world champion...
...with confidence all right"?he manages a sickly grin?"but he damn near betrayed me." The Dancer merely gulps a few big gulps of air, gives his customary fine TV performance in the winner's circle, and saunters down the shady half mile to Barn 20. Millionaire Vanderbilt collects another $28,300 in prize money, making it a total of $781,970 to date for the Dancer. The Dancer gets a meal of some oats, bran, carrots and flaxseed, and the usual victory greeting from Lester Murray: "Come on, you big bum, and I'll do you nice...
...shoes were pulled off to give him a rest. If all goes well, the Big Grey will try to do it again over a longer distance (1¼ miles) with as much or more of a weight spread in the $50,000 Memorial Day Suburban Handicap. After that, Alfred Vanderbilt can choose to race the horse under a whopping impost (possibly in the 140-lb. area) in the Brooklyn Handicap, or take him West...
...course that runs irregularly instead of on a neat, flat oval. The last bend of Ascot's "old mile" rises more than 40 feet in three furlongs. To run the course's ups & downs, a horse must be able to accelerate, slow down, accelerate on demand. Next week, Owner Vanderbilt and Trainer Winfrey plan to fly to Britain to case Ascot for themselves. One of the toughest problems: should Jockey Guerin, who has never ridden the kind of race required by English tracks, ride the Big Grey? It would all be difficult?and challenging...