Preakness To Tom Rolfe
The Preakness Stakes, the second race of the American “triple crown” for three-year-olds, was won by Tom Rolfe, which had earlier run third in the Kentucky Derby. Dapper Dan, which had finished a close second in the Kentucky Derby, again filled second berth, a neck from the winner, with Hail to All four lengths back third. Lucky Debonair, the winner of the Kentucky Derby and favourite for the Preakness, was a distant seventh in the nine-horse field.
Tom Rolfe, which covered the nine and a half furlongs in lmin 56 l-ssec, had to survive a protest from the connexions of the second horse alleging interference inside the last half-furlong. Tom Rolfe is a bay colt by the Italian-bred Ribot from Pocahontas. Ribot also sired the second horse, Dapper Dan. Both are from his first American crop.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30760, 26 May 1965, Page 4
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