At Belmont Park, L. I., Épinard ("Spinach"), French four-year-old stallion, who came to the U. S. last week for international match races this Fall, strolled lazily about the paddock with Satin Slippers, his two-year-old traveling companion (female). He is a bright chestnut beast, slightly undersized, insured for $150,000, valued at $300,000.
At meals the equine friends munched American oats together, drank American water. Their owner, Pierre Wertheimer, and their trainer, Eugene Leigh, do not believe in "special fodder" as did Ben Irish and Basil Jarvis, owner and trainer of Papyrus, the 1923 invader.
American turfdom reiterated the question: "What horseflesh have we...
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