¶ In an obvious effort to team up with his stablemate, Career Boy, and steal France's famous Prix de 1'Arc de Tromphe horse race at Longchamps, C. V. Whitney's gallant little Fisherman sprinted away from the starting wire. Far back Career Boy, Eddie Arcaro aboard, waited for the front-runners to tire in Fisherman's wake.
But Ribot, the Italian wonder horse (TIME, July 30), unbeaten in 15 starts, ran away with the race in the stretch. A tired six lengths back came Britain's Talgo. Career Boy was a well-beaten fourth.
¶Disturbed because athletes all over the world had "misunderstood" the International Olympic Committee's...
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