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...Warren Wright's Ocean Wave, brother of famed Whirlaway...
...last week no reservation had been made for Whirlaway, the horse Promoter Pagliai wants above all for the Hipódromo's biggest race: The May 30 Handicap de las Américas, worth 100,000 pesos to the winner...
Mucho Gusto was no Whirlaway. But he will long be remembered as one of the truly remarkable thoroughbreds of the U.S. turf. Son of a castoff mare named Sweetheart Time and a stallion that had been sold without pedigree at the Lexington stockyards, he was reared in a small grassless paddock behind the Latonia race track. His owner, the track superintendent, sent him out to earn his oats in cheap claiming races.* The biggest purse he ever won was $5,000. Nevertheless, when his name was finally scratched last week, Mucho Gusto's record read: 63 victories...
Last week Whirlaway gave his admirers more than a swish. Dressed in his devil's-red hood with one-eyed blinker (to keep him from bearing out), he strutted to the post, cakewalked around the track until he reached the stretch, then, with nothing to pass but the grandstand, put on the famed finishing sprint that has made him the turf world's top money winner. Time: 2:05 2/5 for the mile-and-three-sixteenths...
...this personal appearance, Whirlaway got $10,000-the biggest purse ever won in a walkover...