Word: backstretcher
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Running against the wind as well as with it was Indiana's Henry Brocksmith, conscientious and stocky, who won the mile and two-mile runs. On the backstretch of the oval track the distance runners, breasting the wind, moved as though in slow motion, exhausted...
...Alex Wilson of Canada. He fumbled giving the baton to Eddie Tolan and ten yards were lost. But then George Simpson, Ohio State's "Buckeye Bullet," cut five yards off the lead and little Genung started after Hampson. He caught him at 440 yd., passed him in the backstretch, finished 70 yd. ahead. Then the crowd found out that De Mers' single javelin-throw had been 198 ft. 4½ in., 8½ ft. short of New Zealander Stan Lay's, but giving the U. S. a winning total of 594 ft. ½ in. With the other...
...elapse, he was quite in his senses. Himself a horseman, smart in the hunting field when he was younger, a breeder and trainer of racers, member of a family that has raced for centuries, he knew as soon as he saw the field challenge Gallant Fox in the backstretch and get stood off on the turn that it was all over. Chatting and smiling, he watched Gallant Fox come in first. Gallant Knight and Ned O finish second and third respectively, then went out in the rain to present Mr. Woodward with the Derby...
...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...