Word: backstretch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rail in a race at Jamaica, L. I. Santrock, blind in one eye, is dangerous. Bumping the rail he could not see, the horse pulled a blinker over the other eye. In total darkness he smashed terrified through the rail, turned somersaults, crashed through both rails on the backstretch. His jockey was thrown, badly bruised. Experts felt it lucky Santrock did not kill both himself and jockey...
...they bolted, Major August Belmont's Ladkin on the rail, then Epinard, then Wise Counsellor (Epinard's conqueror at Belmont Park on Labor Day), then Zev, Little Chief, My Own. Sweeping the turn, streaking down the backstretch, Epinard's chestnut head showed the way. Inch by inch Wise Counsellor moved up-abreast, ahead. Came Ladkin farther out, little by little; then he too was ahead. On the turn Epinard was seen to slow up, veer right, flatten out again in a dash for the outside after losing four lengths. Jockey Haynes had feared a "pocketing...
...nine formed company front at the barrier, then off they dashed. Ahead of the race shot Miss Star, soon passed by Baffling. Speeding down the backstretch, Epinard was plainly "pocketed" just back of Baffling and Zev. Miss Star, Snob II and Wise Counsellor were hunched next...