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Gleaming Light with Larry Adams went to the lead with Hydrologist and Angel Cordero, Jr. a half-length behind on the outside. Three lengths behind that pair raced Distray and John L. Rotz on the rail with Arts And Letters and Braulio Baeza a neck away on the outside. Dike and Jorge Velasquez trailed these by five lengths, as always. After six furlongs and with a half-mile to go Arts And Letters and Dike began stalking the leaders...
Gleaming Light is on the rail a half-length off the pace, and Larry Adams still has a little horse under him. The reins are slightly taut. Hydrologist is next, on the lead, and Cordero has set his horse down for a strong hand ride, the reins loose. Distray, a length off the leader, is being asked for some run by Rotz. Fourth from the rail is Art And Letters, Baeza up, two lengths from the leader and moving fastest of all. Braulio is not pushing his mount. The horse is running on its own courage, still fresh. But, notice...
Harvard's lightweight crew, frustrated in the opening round last year, has attacked the Henley Regatta with a vengence this week. It attacked it on Saturday, when the Crimson dumped Cambridge University by a half-length, breaking the record on the quarter-mile practice course. It attacked it on Sunday, during a practice run, when Harvard shattered the half-mile record, set by Leander Boat Club last summer, by over four seconds...
...Crimson drove off the line powerfully, with a minimum of roughness, and quickly opened up a small lead. By the mile flags, they had a half-length on the Argonauts, but the British crew was raising its stroke to a frantic, punishing 41, gambling the race on its ability to pull even during the final 550 yards...
Eliot House re-established its claim to hegemony in House crew by stroking to a half-length victory over Kirkland and Winthrop in the annual regatta yesterday on the Charles. Kirkland nipped Winthrop in the last five strokes of the race by a one-seat edge to take second...