The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-19
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By HENRY McLEMORE Limited Press staif CorrespondeI

Baltimore, OCC. 1b-NbEJ-%eUEke Cassidy, starter at New York Jockey club tracks, will be the starter for the War Admiral Sea biscuit match race here November 1, 1t was ara- nounced today by the Maryland Racing commission. Cassidy ac- cepted the invitation to act as start- CT after Jim Milton, ofiicial Pimlico track starter, declined the assign ment.
 New York, Oct. l9 (UP)-The last time seabiscuit was asked to run c mile and -sixteenths at Pimlico he picked up 130 pounds as though they were 130 feathers and streaked the distance in l:57 2-bth for track record.
 War Admiral has made two starts over the historic old Pimlico track, and each was ct mile and three- sixteenths. In the 1887 preakness, with Pompoon breathing down his neck, he was whipped home winner in i:58 2-0th. Tn the Pimlico special handicap he made the Journey in i:60 4.6th. In the Preakness the chunky little son of Man O War Brush Up carried i26 pounds, and in the special he had l2s aboard.
 These are pertinent figures, be- cause thirteen days from today, Q wek from next Tuesday, those two horses-the Biscuit and the Admiral will meet ct old Pimlico and match heart to heart, speed for speed, in e special match race.
 The distance will be one mile and three-sixthenth; the weight even- Htephen-i20 pounds.
 seabiscuit likes the Pimlico track. War Admiral doesn't.
 Distance Runner
 am not trying to sell you Sea- biscuit, to persuade you into betting on him when he goes out alone against the Admiral. But I am try- ing to show you that those critics who wrote him out of the race when he was beaten by Jacola in the Laurel stakes last Saturday were mistaken. That race was for but Q mile, and 1t is after the mile has been passed that the Biscuit, 6 whale of c finisher, really starts to roil. Furthermore, the son of Hard Tack packed l28 pounds to 102 for Jacoia, and 24 pounds is 24 pounds to man or beast. With all this ad- vantage. Jacola didn't walk in-she turned the fastest mile ever run. over the Laurel track.
 No sir, don't count seabiscuit cut of any race. He is as though e piece of horsefiesh as the American track has ever seen. And if you don't think that he can leg 1t. please rec member that in the past two sea- sons he has broken seven track rec- ords from coast to coast. And in those races he was the top-weight horse. 4tY ,,e
 He races summer and winter, spring and autumn: here, there, and everywhere. There is scarcely track in the United States, Mexico or Canada that hasn't felt his flying feet. at
 old perpetual motion" that's eeabiscuit. If he isn't running, he s in e box car rolling toward some race. fIe takes 'en ell on, anywhere, anytime. He. isn't ftissy about weights. Tn at least two of his six- teen winning starts since the first of last year he was loaded with the staggering irnpost of i33 pounds. Yet he picked up this burden and set track records. e.8 4
 Bargain Horse
 He has been beaten q lot. especial- ly as q two and thfee-year-old, but he was no great shakes then. It wasn't until he was four that he came around for Colonel Maxwell Howard, the man who bought him for ts,0oo when he was crippled and ailing.
 War Admiral may lick him in their duel on the hilltop, but hell know he has been to the races. If he could speak, and knew his Shakespeare, I'm pretty sure that 9eabiscuit, when he eyed the Ad- mirai in the starting gate. would say: ,sg4. 4 N
 Lay on, McDutf,
 And damn'ed Do him who first cried hold, erough"
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