World's richest horse race is California's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap. Pride of Florida's racing season is her $50,000 Widener Cup race at Hialeah. Since 1938 these two top U. S. handicap events have been run on the same day. The occasion has whetted the pens of the balmy States' weather-racked pressagents—Californians swearing that Florida horses wear overcoats to keep off the cold; Floridians countering with tales of California horses wearing water wings to get through the rain. Last week these fantasies came almost too true to be funny.
It was so cold...
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