Money Race

One horse-racing season covers a full year, from January1 to December 31. During the current season, the two biggest money-winning U. S. race horses have been three-year-old War Admiral, undefeated in eight starts, including the so-called triple crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes), and four-year-old Seabiscuit, champion of the handicap division. Horse-race followers would have liked to see a match between them, but, failing that, were interested to see which would win most money for their respective owners, Samuel D. Riddle and Charles S. Howard. Twice this season War Admiral and Seabiscuit have displaced each other as leading money winner. Last week the race ended in a photographic finish.

At the Pimlico racetrack, near Baltimore, War Admiral went to the post in the Pimlico Special a 1-to-20 favorite, shortest odds of the year at a major track. There was an excited roar from 15,000 throats as War Admiral, usually first from start to finish, could not get out in front, trailed a mediocre horse named Masked General all the way to the home stretch. Then Masked General ran out and War Admiral squeezed home a lucky winner, to bring his 1937 earnings to $166,500. Owner Riddle announced he was retiring him for the season.

Two days later Seabiscuit, about $9,000 behind War Admiral, came from behind to win the Riggs Handicap at the same track, and the race was over. Seabiscuit was the winner. $167,142 to $166,500.

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