Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trainer Ben Jones is as thorough as he is wily, especially when preparing one of his Calumet Farm horses for a big race like the Kentucky Derby. He always insists on his jockey being around for days in advance to get the feel of the horse, and to study the strategy that is planned...
Capot pressed Olympia around the first turn. The first five furlongs were run in a sizzling 59 3/5 seconds. Halfway down the backstretch, Old Rockport began to sneak up on the rail. Ponder, after lagging along absolutely last, began to show signs of life when Jockey Brooks shook the stick at him "just to see what...
...back to the presentation stand. The 66-year-old training wizard from Parnell, Mo., a genius at getting a horse ready for one big race, had the look of a man who had fooled even himself. Said little Conn McCreary, who finished fifth aboard Halt: "When the day comes around, he makes you look like a sucker...
Months later Dr. Reeves went back and examined his discovery. He did not find any chunks of meteorite, nor could he prove conclusively that the hole was made by a meteor. But all signs indicated that it was. There were no volcanic materials in the vicinity, and the strata around the rim seemed to be tilted upward as if from an underground explosion...
...news of his assignment got around, he and his wife got a stream of anonymous telephone calls threatening them with dire trouble if he didn't lay off. Johnson changed his phone to an unlisted number and went on prying information out of dockwallopers, union bosses, thugs, shipowners and police files...