The Press: Papyrus

Arrangements were completed for Papyrus, champion English three-year-old colt, to invade America to run against America's champion. Papyrus will sail late this month and race after three weeks' acclimation.

Not only will Papyrus bring special fodder, but he will have his own English water, his stablemate Bargold, his little black stable cat, two stable boys, a trainer and Steve Donoghue, jockey.

There was such bickering over the financial arrangements that various Englishmen complained that Ben Irish, owner, was spelling sport with a dollar sign. They also averred that the race is a plan to...

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