Word: atkinsons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...eleven years of racing, canny, Canadian-born Jockey Ted ("Slasher") Atkinson had whipped his way home with the winner almost more times than he could remember; had won more than $6,000,000 in purses for his employers. But unlike his rival, banana-nosed Jockey Eddie Arcaro, Ted Atkinson had never been first at the finish in a big race like the Kentucky Derby or the Preakness...
...Pimlico last week, when Jockey Atkinson mounted Capot again for the $75,000 Preakness, the track was lightning fast as the nine horses shot from the starting gate. Noble Impulse, the pacemaker, chopped a second off the track record for the half-mile, 2 4/5 seconds off the seven-furlong mark (with a sizzling 1:23 1/5). In the stretch, Slasher Atkinson went to the whip and drove into the lead. Atkinson no longer had to worry about groggy Noble Impulse, but Eddie Arcaro, aboard Palestinian, had slipped through a hole on the bend. For the last 100 yards...
...other jock), knew that his colt could set a blazing pace, and any rival who tried to stay with him might kill himself off. Arcaro also knew that if one of the others succeeded in forcing the pace far enough Olympia might be the one killed off. Jockey Ted Atkinson on Capot elected...
Ever looking upward, Milton tried the legitimate stage. In the 1932 Vanities, the Times's Brooks Atkinson calmly noted in Berle "a certain derivative exuberance." In 1934's Saluta, Atkinson found him running "the whole gamut from vulgarity to grossness" with "immense enthusiasm and no discrimination at all." Since then, Berle's theatrical record consists of two moderate successes (See My Lawyer and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1943) and, most recently, an immoderate flop (Spring in Brazil). He has also flopped several times as a producer and backer. As a producer, he did so much tampering with...
...Blue Grass Stakes, Old Rockport had the same jockey who rode him to victory in the Santa Anita, sensational young (18) Apprentice Gordon Glisson. But soon after the four-horse field charged from the starting gate, Glisson found himself boxed in by three veteran riders, Johnny Longden, Ted Atkinson and Conn McCreary. The cagey veterans had the young "bug" rider where they wanted him, and they kept him there...