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...fall it was a two-horse race. Our Boots was ridden by little Conn McCreary, who is so small he looks like a pussycat on a horse. Puss McCreary acted like a wise old cat. Leading from the start, he eased Our Boots in the backstretch, let Whirlaway get in front. Then, rounding the home turn, Puss and Boots shot past Whirlaway, three, four, five, six lengths at the wire. Explained disappointed Kentuckians: Whirly won't run unless there is someone in front of him-he loses interest. "Don't count him out," they chirped, "it will...
Warren Wright's Whirlaway, top money winner among last year's juveniles, lost prestige in Florida in losing two of his first three races as a three-year-old. Our Boots, who showed his heels to Whirlaway in three races last year (including the Belmont Futurity), looked good to some folks-particularly his owner, Millionaire Royce Martin of Toledo, and his trainer, cadaverous old Steve Judge. But superstitious fans remembered that no Belmont Futurity winner has ever won the Ken tucky Derby...
Last week Whirlaway and Our Boots met in the mile-and-an-eighth Blue Grass Stakes, traditional Derby preview, at Lex ington, Ky. It was a holiday in horsy Lexington. Both Whirlaway and Boots were born within whinnying distance of Lexington's courthouse. Natives, who knew that Our Boots, by Bulldog out of Maid of Arches, comes from a family notable for speed rather than staying qualities, made Whirlaway the favorite...