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...Arkansas has no Vichy. Arkansas does have Mountain Valley Water, which we've been delivering to Kelso through his five "horse of the year" campaigns and right to this minute. Other thoroughbred drinkers include Bold Ruler, Sword Dancer, Nashua, Round Table, Gallant Man, and, going back, Gallant Fox, Bimelech, Challedon, Bubbling Over, Black Toney, Johnstown and Omaha. Kelso has consumed more Mountain Valley than any other living being...
With the cream of the crop absent, a bumper Futurity field of 14 colts and three fillies burst out of the starting gate and began the dash down the Belmont straightaway. Guillotine, a speed horse from Greentree Stable, son of 1939 Futurity Winner Bimelech, shot into the lead. The experts waited to see him chopped down at any moment. But with Jockey Ted Atkinson swinging his whip, Guillotine was still in front after covering six furlongs in i :og, and lasted the additional sixteenth of a mile to win by almost a length from Calumet Farm's highly regarded...
Died. Edward Riley Bradley, 86, onetime bookmaker and longtime "honest gambler," who became a multimillionaire as proprietor of Palm Beach's Casino, famed & respected owner of some of America's most famous race horses (Blue Larkspur, Bimelech, Bubbling Over), only four-time winner of the Kentucky Derby; in Lexington...
Although the Classic has always been a jinx for champion three-year-olds (it was for Whirlaway, Johnstown, Bimelech and Twenty Grand) the finally convinced bettors made Assault a 7-to-10 favorite for last week's 18th running of the mile-and-a-quarter stakes. The only real point to the race seemed to be whether he was a great horse, or only a good one in a bad year. Assault's Trainer Max Hirsch wondered whether the other horses were good enough to give Assault a race...
This year's Kentucky Derby will be run at Churchill Downs this Saturday. Each year, in the past three years, there has been an outstanding winter-book favorite: in 1938, Stagehand; in 1939, El Chico; last year, Bimelech. But this year there has been no Big Horse...