Word: aqueduct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Opening Blow. The first race, finally run at Aqueduct on the Fourth of July last year, was part disaster, part triumph. The disaster occurred coming out of the starting gate, when another horse wheeled into Secretariat and knocked him sideways. "If he wasn't so strong," the jockey said afterward, "he would have gone right down." The triumph was that after being slammed completely out of contention, Secretariat closed with a rush, made up seven or eight lengths in the last quarter-mile, and finished fourth...
This year Secretariat has won four races out of five. At the 1⅛-mile Wood Memorial at Aqueduct in late April, he ran third, behind Angle Light and Sham. Nobody will ever be sure what went wrong that day. Turcotte is inclined to blame himself. Giving the horse his final speed work four days before the race, Turcotte sent him a mile in 1.42%. A fair workout for most horses-but a heavy eater like Secretariat needs to extend himself between races to keep in top condition, and it might have been better if they had gone faster...
...From here on out," Mrs. Penny Tweedy remarked a few days before the Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct, "it's Turns and Rolaids." There seemed to be no grounds for nervous indigestion. After all, Tweedy's three-year-old colt Secretariat was heavily favored to win the Wood as a prelude to collecting the roses at the Kentucky Derby this week. But Secretariat faltered inexplicably and finished a mediocre third behind Angle Light and Sham. Suddenly this Saturday's contest at Churchill Downs shapes up as more of a horse race than the smart money had previously...
...write you to explain my views on the crucial debate on Black Rock Forest. I believe much is at stake here: not only the beauty of the Hudson Highlands, the threats to the New York fisheries, the possible contamination of the Catskill Aqueduct, the air pollution caused by power plants working to bring water up Storm King, the possibility of the town of Cornwall being flooded by a break in the reservoir: besides all this, I fear that Harvard's reputation is at stake as well...
...concern over ecological damage. It notes that economic feasibility of the project involves the questionable construction of two other power plants currently stalled in legal action, and that without these facilities serious increases in air pollution could occur. It notes New York City's concern that the Catskill aqueduct, which supplies 40 per cent of the city's water, might be damaged by the project. It notes that the public safety could be endangered by the proposed dam, and that its rupture could inundate half the town of Cornwall. It notes the possible destruction of large portions of the striped...