The sportswriters' first choice is Alsab (TIME, Jan. 12)despite the fact that he has failed to win a race in six starts this year. Their second choice is Requested, the Texas colt that beat Alsab in Florida's Flamingo Stakes last February and beat Apache, pride of Broadway, in New York's Wood Memorial last week. Kentucky hard-boots like the looks of a pair of colts owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: Shut Out, a worthy son of the late great Equipoise, and Devil Diver, rated the most promising Whitney youngster since Twenty Grand. Some diehards still think that Warren Wright's in-again, out-again...
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