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Country Life is a horsy magazine comprising all that is left of Polo, The Sportsman, Horse & Horseman. Its editor & publisher is an ardent turf lover named Peter Vischer. In this month's Country Life, Editor Vischer had a few paragraphs to say about "the custom becoming more and more prevalent among track operators of paying the 'expenses' of newspapermen doing the work their papers assign them to do, of putting them up cost-free at their clubhouses or elsewhere, even of putting them on the payroll...
...ideally suited for classic distance races like the Belmont Stakes (1½ miles), Jockey Club Gold Cup (2 miles), Lawrence Realization (if miles). But, because of its vastness, Belmont has long been unpopular with grandstand spectators, who rarely see anything but the stretch run of the shorter-races. Even Turf & Field Club patrons, who have followed races through binoculars ever since they could hist a pair, are hard put to it to distinguish jockeys' silks over the landscape gardening in the infield...
...race horse Equipoise (1928-38) was a big daisy on the U. S. turf. In six years of racing he won $338,610 for his owner, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. In 51 starts he finished first 32 times.* He was descended through a line of thoroughbreds from the great English-born horse, Eclipse, which was foaled in 1845 of mixed English and Arabian ancestry. In racing form, Equipoise weighed about 1,000 Ibs. When he died he weighed...
...minutes in the Army game and completed three out of four passes which resulted in a Harvard touchdown. Except for a couple of minutes last Saturday, he has never again played in a Varsity football game. He's "too small" and "too slow." But in practice he burns the turf off the practice with enthusiasm. His name is Bob James, and this last week he has held up sandbags for the A-team backs to block during practice...
...last week, however, the Pimlico Special (a weight-for-age affair at a mile-and-three-sixteenths for three-year-olds and up) was recognized as the annual post-season race that determines the U. S. thoroughbred champion. Some 25,000 turf fans crammed into Pimlico's mid-Victorian stands to see if this year's Special would be as dramatic as the first two.† Contenders for the title were William L. Brann's three-year-old Challedon, Charles S. Howard's four-year-old Kayak II and Townsend B. Martin's four-year...