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...evening last week a plumpish little five-year-old pacer named Hi-Lo's Forbes sped around Baltimore Raceway to win its $10,000 Special Invitational free-for-all pace. The horse was one-tenth of a second off the track record, but in June at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway he had set his own world mark for the mile (1:58 1/5). After such a triumph, his owner might properly have gone on a nightlong celebration. Instead, hefty Earl Wagner, 35, grabbed the first plane ride of his life to hurry back to his home...
...Hi-Lo's Forbes has already won $48,000 this season. Wagner plans to start easing the horse off now, sharpen him up for the time trials to be held in Lexington, Ky. in October, where he will be racing against the clock rather than against other horses. There, if the horse can beat the world record for time trials of 1:55, set in 1938 by Billy Direct, Wagner believes Hi-Lo's Forbes will be worth far more than the $50,000-a-year stud fees he now potentially merits as a full-time stud...
...Patton. My mother was Reuben Stephens' daughter. I am the son of Andrew Allen. My grandmother Stephens was the sister of the late L. Hicks and Jonathan Hicks, of Middle Creek. I married the daughter of Bud Handshoe, of Hueysville, Ky. Her mother was the daughter of Hi Fitch. The deceased George Fitch, of the Mouth of Brush Creek, was her uncle. A few words to mothers: If your son happens to get in jail, I will see that he has good treatment, plenty to eat and a decent place to sleep...
...Hi-Fi. In Chicago, Magnavox Co. showed off a mass-produced, high-fidelity phonograph with four speakers. Capable of reproducing sounds up to 12,000 cycles (twice the range of most mass-produced sets), Magnasonic has a three-speed record changer and an eight-tube amplifier-preamplifier mounted in a mahogany console cabinet. Price: about...
...Westbury, N.Y., Hi-Lo's Forbes, a pacer, cut a full second off the world record for a mile (on a half-mile track), by going the distance...