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...Market Wise, with Basil James up: the 56th annual Suburban Handicap; defeating famed Whirlaway by three lengths; before a Memorial Day crowd of 52,000; at New York's Belmont Park. The day's pari-mutuel handle was $2,176,071, a world's record for one day's racetrack betting...
...pair of colts owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: Shut Out, a worthy son of the late great Equipoise, and Devil Diver, rated the most promising Whitney youngster since Twenty Grand. Some diehards still think that Warren Wright's in-again, out-again Sun Again will be another Whirlaway...
...Flamingo. This week Arcaro will ride either Devil Diver or Shut Out. If he boots home the winner, he will deserve to be ranked with Earl Sande and Negro Isaac Murphy, the only two jockeys ever to ride three Kentucky Derby winners. Arcaro won with Lawrin in 1938, with Whirlaway last year...
With the exception of Whirlaway, who is still lounging at California's blacked-out Santa Anita, nearly every glamor horse in the U.S. was entered in Florida's Widener Handicap, richest race of the winter season...
...some owners, like Whirlaway's rich Warren Wright, it will mean a considerable loss in racing income (Whirly was favored to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap). But for the hundreds of hand-to-mouth horsemen, who can ill afford the $5 a day necessary to support each of their unemployed dependents, Santa Anita's closing was a shattering blow...