Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are 2,900 fast-starting, nimble "quarter horses" and 82 race horses in the ranch's stable. The ranch's Assault has won $623,370 to date, third biggest winner in racing history...
...came back from the race tracks at Louisville and Saratoga with two carloads of thoroughbreds, and put them to "improving the breed." His horses turned out to have bigger chests and heavier forelegs than Kentucky breeders liked. They also ran faster than Kentuckians liked. The King Ranch's Assault won the triple crown-the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont...
...cream-and-brown King Ranch racing colors have won all but a few of the nation's major racing classics, including the Santa Anita Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes, the Saratoga Special, a score of others. Trainer Hirsch summed up what Kleberg was trying to do: "Either Assault or Stymie would make crack cow horses." In the words of a cattleman, "cow horses can start fast, turn on a dime and give you 9? change...
...gelding, Armed, had been outdistanced by six-year-old Stymie as the leading money winner of all time (TIME, July 28); but he was not forgotten. The Triangle Publications (Daily Racing Form, Morning Telegraph, etc.) named him 1947's Horse-of-the-Year. The voting: Armed 25, Assault 2, Stymie...
...Woodrow Wilson, recruiting officer and China hand. In May 1942, he was appointed commanding officer of the ist Marine Regiment. With the 1st, he helped seize Guadalcanal. After Guadalcanal, he moved to Saipan, took over command of the 4th Marine Division. Gates led the 4th in its famed assaults on Tinian and Iwo Jima. Military experts have since described the Tinian assault as "the perfect amphibious operation." To get ready for it, Cates personally did aerial reconnaissance over the island. Once ashore, he visited the front lines almost daily to study terrain and boost morale, often alarming his staff...