Mike Resnick - Malish

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MALISH

by Mike Resnick

His name was Malicious, and you can look it up in the

_American Racing Manual_: from ages 2 to 4, he won 5 of his 46

starts, had seven different owners, and never changed hands for

more than $800.

His method of running was simple and to the point: he was

usually last out of the gate, last on the backstretch, last around

the far turn, and last at the finish wire.

He didn't have a nickname back then, either. Exterminator may

have been Old Bones, and Man o' War was Big Red, and of course

Equipoise was the Chocolate Soldier, but Malicious was just plain

Malicious.

Turns out he was pretty well-named, after all.

It was at Santa Anita in February of 1935 -- and _this_ you

can't look up in the _Racing Manual_, or the _Daily Racing Form

Chart Book_, or any of the other usual sources, so you're just

going to have to take my word for it -- and Malicious was being

rubbed down by Chancey McGregor, who had once been a jockey until

he got too heavy, and had latched on as a groom because he didn't

know anything but the racetrack. Chancey had been trying to

supplement his income by betting on the races, but he was no

better at picking horses than at riding them -- he had a passion

for claimers who were moving up in class, which any tout will tell

you is a quick way to go broke -- and old Chancey, he was getting

mighty desperate, and on this particular morning he stopped

rubbing Malicious and put him in his stall, and then started

trading low whispers with a gnarly little man who had just

appeared in the shed row with no visitor's pass or anything, and

after a couple of minutes they shook hands and the gnarly little

man pricked Chancey's thumb with something sharp and then held it

onto a piece of paper.

Well, Chancey started winning big that very afternoon, and

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