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Candy Spots Tops Never Bend...
...Payson, owner of the oft-defeated New York Mets, bore out on the stretch turn, still romped to a two-length victory that ran his record to five straight, stamped him as a strong contender-along with Rex Ellsworth's Candy Spots and Harry Guggenheim's Never Bend-for next week's Kentucky Derby...
Sound Ground. In a drumfire of propaganda outbursts, Indonesia hailed the "Brunei freedom fighters," lashed out at "British mercenaries and puppets," granted political asylum to Brunei Leader Azahari, raved that Abdul Rahman was "round the bend." (Retorted the Tunku: "What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?") Djakarta mobs hanged the Tun ku in effigy, and Sukarno declared a "policy of confrontation" against Malaya. Indonesian jets buzzed Malayan ships in the South China Sea, and army leaders darkly threatened "incidents of physical conflict" along the border of Brunei and Indonesia...
...said he thought if the Committee were pressured to nominate a particular candidate, it would "bend over backward" to choose someone else...
Guggenheim and Ellsworth have matched their prize colts once before. Never Bend and Candy Spots met as two-year-olds at last summer's $357,250 Arlington-Washington Futurity in Chicago. It was a bad day all around for Guggenheim. Candy Spots won by a half-length, and Never Bend's Jockey Ycaza was grounded for 60 days for a "completely unwarranted" claim of foul. Yet both horses were operating under handicaps. Never Bend had sprained a back muscle at Saratoga, and Candy Spots, still green, was running in only his third race. "Candy Spots won magnificently," Guggenheim...