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From the start of last week's Kentucky Derby, 26-year-old Jockey Mehrtens suspected he had quite a horse under him. For seven furlongs he sat tensely tight-then he began laying the whip into chestnut, Texas-born Assault. An 8-1 white hope whose home base is the 900,-ooo-acre King Ranch of Texan Robert...
...dark horses. Other doting owners (some 18 in all) would not pay the $1,000 entry fee just to see their colors flutter on Derby Day. The Downs was alive with regional prides: Marine Victory, the Maryland horse; Pellicle, Kentucky's own; and a big Texas-born chestnut named Assault, which had won Jamaica's Wood Memorial Stakes-a proving ground for five Derby winners-in wagon-horse time. Assault is known as the New York horse...
Adrian Matamores '49--Margarita Azuola (Chestnut Hill...
...dawned warm and windless. By 8:30, the hot chestnut men were out. Hawkers barking blue dolls (royal blue for Oxford, light blue for Cambridge), windmills and crossed-oar badges took up stands they hadn't filled since the last Boat Race Day, seven years ago. By 11, just before high tide, when the Thames is quiet and indulgent, a half-million Londoners had lined both sides of the Thames's tow-paths as their fathers & grandfathers had before them, off & on, for 117 years. Almost everybody brought hampers of food, and some brought stepladders. It was England...
Soap First, Then Art. Mary Kingsbury, born in Boston's suburban Chestnut Hill, and Radcliffe-educated, had been a "social worker" for several years; but she despised the Lady Bountiful attitude the term implied. Says she: "I hate to be pictured as a lovely woman doing good. I'm really pretty realistic...