Word: aqueduct
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...bettors at New York's Aqueduct Race Track made Kauai King the odds-on favorite (at 3-5), invested a whopping $104,953 on him to show figuring that he could not possibly finish worse than third out of eleven horses. They would have been wiser to play the market. Kauai King took the lead on the backstretch, held it all the way around the final turn-but then, with exactly 1 mi. still to go, he seemed to run into a river of molasses. A 5-1 shot named Amberoid, who couldn't even...
...BELMONT STAKES (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). The 98th running of the racing classic, third event in the Triple Crown, live from Aqueduct Race Track, Ozone Park...
...music." Indeed, the rumble of hooves has been known to inspire him to a dash off a few themes while hanging on the rail. In his Dramatic Movement for Orchestra, for instance, the slam-bang finale is his version of the horses thundering down the stretch at Aqueduct...
...coupled with a sincere effort to stop leaks in the water system. What is fatal, however, is the assumption that these temporary measures are the final solution. No one would like to see tax-burdened New Yorkers saddled with another tax of questionable necessity. Even if the aqueduct system were to be completely rid of leaks (which hardly seems likely judging from past attempts) there is still an ever-growing need for water, a need which will surpass the one that already overstrains supply. In 20 years it is estimated that Americans will consume 245 billion gallons more than their...
...Tosmah: the $28,800 Maskette Handicap for fillies and mares; at New York's Aqueduct race track. Despite their sex, Tony Imbesi's four-year-old Tosmah, the 1964 filly champion, and Ethel Jacobs' five-year-old Affectionately, winner of $169,806 this year, are perhaps the two top thoroughbreds in the U.S. Equally weighted at 128 Ibs., they matched stride for stride practically all the way; judges needed a photo to determine that Tosmah was the winner by the narrowest of noses...