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>Only one collision marred the 46th running of the Indianapolis 500, the fastest Memorial Day race--and one of the safest--in history. As usual, speed outstripped design: only 15 of the 33 low-slung racing cars that started managed to last the punishing 500-mile distance. A minor melee on the 19th lap knocked four cars out of the race, sent Driver Jack Turner to the hospital with a broken hip and a cracked toe. An early dropout was the 1961 winner, A.J. Foyt, whose Bowes Seal Fast Special threw a wheel at the 75-mile mark. The early leader, Parnelli Jones--who earned the pole position with a dazzling qualifying speed of 150.370 m.p.h., first time anyone has lapped the 2 1/2-mile track in less than 60 sec.--lost his brakes after 310 miles, wound up seventh. The winner: Indianapolis' own steady, careful Rodger Ward, who also won in 1958, averaged 140.292 m.p.h., enough to set a new race record and collect a well-earned total of $124,515 in prize money.

>Unable to win a stakes race this year, Jack Price's plucky, long-tailed Carry Back staged a stirring comeback in the $111,900 Metropolitan Handicap at New York's Aqueduct race track. Skillfully ridden by Jockey Johnny Rotz, the horse that won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness last year, but broke down in the Belmont Stakes and now rated only 9-to-2 odds, dawdled twelve lengths behind the leaders through the backstretch, turned it on at the close to win by a gallant 2 1/2 lengths. A well-beaten sixth: Mrs. Richard C. du Pont's five-year-old gelding Kelso, 1961's Horse of the Year and the 3-to-5 favorite at post time. Carry Back ran the mile in 1 min. 33 3/5 sec.--tying the track record. His $72,735 winner's purse boosted his life time earnings to $1,009,153, made him the fourth million-dollar horse (the others: Round Table, Nashua, Citation) in racing history.

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