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...Hero carried 175 pounds. Shortly after the start he swung gracefully into the lead. Over Becher's Brook, over Valentine's Brook, around the treacherous canal turn he swung, taking the leaps with daring ease. On and on to what seemed to be sure victory. But the turf was soggy from two days of rain. The field crept closer and closer. At the last hedge but one, Easter Hero and Gregalach jumped together. When they landed Gregalach was ahead. He kept the lead across the final barrier to win by six lengths. Far behind staggered Richmond...
...Patrick's Day with horseracing. The animals raced from mid-morning until after sundown at varying distances for assorted purses and Golden Prince, could he talk, might have told reporters he was the happiest horse in the world. Golden Prince earned $110,000, the largest annual turf stake in the world, by winning the tenth running of the Coffroth Handicap at Tiajuana (Aunt Jane). Mexico. Golden Prince is a sleepy-looking Kentucky chestnut, a five-year-old gelding from the stables of the Sunshot Stock Farm owned by one Abe Bartelstein. He has won seven out of eight starts...
...outfielders went out onto the field yesterday afternoon for a brief session catching flies. The turf, however, is not yet in condition for regular outdoor workouts...
...only other mounted horse to survive, came on to win. Little Tommy Cullinan, Billy's jockey, rose, shook himself, remounted and rode on to finish second. Billy Barton has been in England since autumn waiting for March 22. A few weeks ago, after frosts that kept the turf hardened, he was taken to Tenby, on the sheltered southern coast of Wales, to limber up in the sands. Now he is pronounced fit although there were rumors last week that he was coughing and would not run. Eleven years old, a gelding, he was bred in Kentucky...
...catchers wait anxiously every day to hear what is doing with big league catchers in Chicago. To them, the Yankees have always been as splendid as ancestors and the Giants have been a team of nine enormous men, as swift as birds, galloping upon a desert of turf and walloping a moonlike ball with tree-trunks...