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Frank Race ep14 The Adventure Of The Vanishing Favorite

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The Adventures of Frank Race, starring Tom Colin. The war changed many things, the face of the Earth and the people on it. Before the war, Frank Race worked as an attorney, but he traded his law books for the cloak-and-tagger of the OSS, and when it was over, his former life was over too.

Adventure had become his business. The Adventures of Frank Race. Now we join Frank Race for the Adventure of the Vanishing Favorite. Nothing can buy as much excitement as a $2 bill.

Anybody addicted to the sport of kings can tell you that. It was a soft balmy afternoon and I was lined up with the other balmy $2 bettors. It was one of the mutual windows of my favorite race course on Long Island.

Intent on wagering a deuce in my 40 to 1-shot selection. That'd get beat. Nine other two-year-olds to the wire. And the opening gallop of fire and hurlough. Oh, problem on a mile! I thought you weren't going to bed on the first mark.

And I still ain't. Anybody which would bed on two-year-olds must be off of his stick. I went down to Fanyo. I went to bed with the finish line where I left you. Think I wouldn't come back.

Well, maybe I should have said I was sent down to Fanyo. Has a guy in a clubhouse wants to see us. He wants what he should have said in his box with him. Seats in this crowd.

Mark your American miracles. Who is the benevolent gentleman? His name is... Wait a minute. It's right here on the pass as he give me for the box. Uh, Robert J. Showward. What? He's the racing secretary.

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