Sport: Top Row

Top Row

Albert Anthony Baroni is a carefully-tailored gentleman whose wise, sunburned Latin face has grown increasingly familiar to track followers for the past five years. Long ago, Mr. Baroni ran a restaurant in Reno, Nev. With the profits, he bought racehorses which he, himself, trained and ran at minor tracks. He first attracted national attention in 1933 when in Chicago he was arrested, indicted but never tried for giving horses heroin. By that time, track followers had noticed one remarkable thing about Mr. Baroni: His stable was being run at a...

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