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By ELLIOTT FINEA primer for horse bettors is soon to be published by the Thoroughbred Racing Association of America, similar to a book just out called “Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding.” The latter work will be furnished to every sports editor in the country. The primer will bring out why horses don’t run “true to form.” Some reasons why, as well as a lot of other pertinent facts, will be given. For instance, there are 881 breeding farms, covering 2,350,000 acres, in the XT. S., an area three times as large as Rhode Island. Some 8,700 brood mares, 780 stallions, and^ 5,500 yearlings live on these farms/ It costs about $840 a year to maintain one- of the fancy animals.Jockeys get paid $15 for every race . . . if he wins he gets $35, plus 10 per cent of the purse for the race, which may run into sizable money. . . • There are 297 railway express cars exclusively used for horse shipping , .. coughs and colds, similar to the. human afflictions, are serious worries to.veterinarians . . . horses* teeth require constant care too. So do their hooves. All in all, owning and running race horses is a costly and bothersome business. Most owners, however, are quite wealthy ... their racing stables are their idea of a hobby. They lose considerable every year.Lt. lt;jg) John Boyda, former Cleveland Rams fall back, has been named coach for the Albany, Calif., amphibious basefootball team. Bob Lange,pitcher for Wilkes - Barre of the Eastern league, spent 51 months in the army. Frenehy Bordagaray of the Dodgers becomes a 10-year man In thebig leagues next spring. Pvt.Don Kolloway, former White Sox second baseman, has won the bronze star for heroism asa stretcher-bearer.The sailors at San Diego base yell at umpires, “Hike to Building 73 J” . . . that being the psychopathic ward. . . . Little Ben Hogan looms as a real threat to Byron Nelson, who has been having things all his own way in golf tournaments. . . . Hogan, recently released from the air force, defeated Nelson in the Nashville Open. A! “Pappy” Strum of the St. Peters-berg Yacht club set two new world records for speed boats . . . in theclass D runabouts, he beat toe one-mile mark of 45.91 m.p.h. by roaring the distance in 50.84 m.p.h. He raised the five-mile speed mark to 46.58 from 45.57 m.p.h.Another set of records was smashed recently by Brenda Hel-ser, movie starlet and woman’s swimming star ... she broke the 100-yard mark by 2.5 seconds, the iQO-meter free style by 1 second,and the 200-meter by 2.7 seconds.
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Saline Observer
Saline, Michigan, US
Thu, Sep 20, 1945
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