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Running the third leg of the mile relay, Dave McKelvey slaughtered Dave Gialson of Princeton on the backstretch to give Harvard a lead it never lost. In the "slow" heat, Harvard pulled out the win by clocking a 3:14.1 -- .2 seconds better than Cornell's time in the second heat. The quartet of Frank Snowden (49.7), Shooter Haggerty (48.8), Dave McKelvey (47.5), and Jeff Huvelle (48.1) tied the Harvard record set last year in the Heps...
Haggerty lost a heartbreaker in the 440 hurdles. After smashing a hurdle on the backstretch, he regained the lead but lost it in the final two yards to Cornell's John Elliot. Both were timed...
...settle into his stride before you make your move," Gentry told Ussery. It seemed like useless advice. On the first turn, Proud Clarion was buried in the pack, and Ussery's face was spattered with mud as Barbs Delight fought Damascus for the lead. In the backstretch, Ussery moved to the outside, eased in behind the leaders-and waited. Then, coming into the homestretch, said Ussery, "I hit him three or four times." With a burst, Proud Clarion drove between Damascus and Diplomat Way, past Barbs Delight, and raced on to win by a length. Afterward, Trainer Gentry allowed...
...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 win a $12,500 claiming race a year ago, went...
...turned out, the only horse in the nine-entry field that gave Kauai King a run was a 4-1 shot named Stupendous. It was quite a tussle while it lasted. Overtaking Kauai King's early lead, Stupendous surged ahead in the backstretch, at one point opened a four-length gap. Not until he entered the homestretch did Kauai King start to come on. Responding to the sting of Brumfield's bat, his tongue lolling out of his mouth, he finished with a fantastic burst that carried him to a 1¾-length victory. Time...