PILLOW FIGHT RETIRED
Pillow Fight, who won the Avondale Guineas in 1932, is spending the evening of his days roaming the plains of Texas. He was the horse bought by D. J. Davis in the hope that he would prove another Phar Lap, but after a series of failures in America, Davis sold him for about 500 dollars, which was one-fiftieth of the sum for-which he had been bought. He Was owned in turn'by Earl Beezley and Mr; WagThe former has declared that Pillow Fight was the greatest horse he ever saw or handled. He cured him of bleeding,, but he could not find an antidote for a blood condition that caused him to stand with one leg outstretched. Beezley declared that if he could have got the horse right he would have run six furlongs in lmin lOsec or a mile in lmin 36sec at any-time. It seems, Ihercfore, that this fine-looking horse was good.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 17
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156PILLOW FIGHT RETIRED Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 17
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