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...84th birthday, shows no signs of slowing to a sedate canter. Up at 4:45 a.m. for his day at the track, Mr. Fitz still keeps two dozen thoroughbreds under his watchful eye, including Stakes Winner ($764,204 so far) Bold Ruler. At night, naturally. Fitz stays abreast of horseflesh problems the TV way: watching westerns...
...Miller's own entry-a pair of colts named Thorpe Hanover and O'Brien Hanover. Owned by Pennsylvania Oilman Hugh Grant, Thorpe and O'Brien were sons of Tar Heel-another Miller-developed sire. Grant, who depends on Miller's advice and uncanny instinct for horseflesh in making his purchases, bought the two colts in 1956 for a modest $13,000 and turned them over to Miller for training. In his skilled hands, they had already won $103,463 in prize money, as an entry went to the post 19-20 favorites...
...trying to figure out how he did it. With his breeding he should not have the staying power to finish a mile-and-a-furlong derby with a sprint. His sire, the Irish-bred Sullivan, seldom lasted more than a mile; his dam. Lady N Silk, also seemed mere horseflesh. With his build, Silky hardly looks like a thoroughbred at all. He has heavy jowls, the neck of a Percheron and the broad chest of a Turkish wrestler. He clops solidly up to the starting gate as if he were there only to pull it into position. Indeed, Silky...
Fury's success is due less to the horse sense it propounds than the exciting horseflesh it displays. No ordinary nag, Fury (real name: Beauty) is one of the best-trained, best-paid horses in Hollywood, where his competition is keen. He lives quietly on a posh ranch in Van Nuys, Calif., works only four months a year and has brought Owner Ralph McCutcheon about $500,000 in eight years. His Fury fee: $1,500 a show. A saddlebred, eleven-year-old stallion standing 15 lands high, Fury has borne some of Hollywood's most famous bodies...
...well as the most formidable military genius in Asiatic history-is played by Hollywood's best-known cowboy, John Wayne. And does he gallop across the steppe, as the young Temujin did, on a hairy little Mongol pony? You bet your yurt he doesn't. The sleek horseflesh in this picture would just about last one night in the average steppe pasture at 10 below...