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...first dash for the rail at Pimlico's Preakness last week, Kentucky Derby Winner Dark Star shot into the lead. Dark Star had beaten Alfred Vanderbilt's Native Dancer in the Derby by following a simple script: get in front, out of trouble, and stay in front. But this time the Dancer, Jockey Guerin up, was not playing his part of the Derby script. Instead of getting banged early and boxed later, as he had in the Derby, Jockey Guerin kept the smooth-moving grey colt close on the pace, well out of trouble...
...Blue Man, the Preakness; at Maryland's Pimlico race track. Driving up from next-to-last at the three-quarter-mile mark, and rated perfectly by Veteran Jockey Conn McCreary, long-striding Blue Man collared horse after horse and won, going away, by 3½ lengths. Time for the mile and three-sixteenths: 1:57.4, good enough to snag the $86,135 winner's purse for Owner Arthur Abbott, a Rye, N.Y. ice-cream maker and former minor-league ballplayer. With Kentucky Derby Winner Hill Gail out of action with an ankle ailment, 1952's Triple Crown...
Racing (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). The Preakness, from Pimlico race track, Baltimore...
...Thinking first of the story and director, and last of a star, Balcon found that his pictures, made with no concession to American tastes, were more popular in the U.S. than British-made imitations of the Hollywood product. Ealing's top successes in the U.S.: Passport to Pimlico (a small section of postwar London is discovered to be foreign soil), Kind Hearts and Coronets (a likable young man kills off six of his relatives), Tight Little Island (a whisky famine makes criminals of a whole island), Lavender Hill Mob (a mild-mannered clerk pulls off a bank robbery...
...down from school, he fitted in easily with the working side of race-track life. He could be found of mornings consorting with exercise boys, grooms, dockers and indescribables around the back stretch of various race tracks. Later, when he got into the management of Baltimore's Pimlico track, he did something that was even worse; he took advice extensively from newspapermen...