Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There, the colt-named Battlefield (by War Relic-Dark Display)-pricked his ears and began to run. By last weekend, when 14 of the finest two-year-olds in the U.S. went to the post for the 61st running of Belmont's Futurity, Battlefield had won so many stakes he was the odds-on (19-20) favorite. In twelve starts, he had won nine times, never been out of the money, earned...
...Battlefield was clearly Jockey Eddie Arcaro's favorite, too. He had ridden Battlefield in most of his starts, and before the Futurity, richest and most prestigious of two-year-old tests, he was unmistakably confident. (His agent, Bones La Boyne, explained: "When the money's there, Eddie's there...
...wire. He made no effort to grab an early lead: "When I saw everyone else trying to get to the front, I took back. I must have been seven or eight lengths behind the leaders at one time." A quarter-mile from home he hustled Battlefield out of the pack and set out to collar the leader, Greentree Stable's 13-to-1 Big Stretch, hard ridden by Ted Atkinson. With a sixteenth to go, it was still Big Stretch. Then Arcaro gave his colt a touch of the whip. As Battlefield slowly closed the gap, Eddie yelled...
...less eloquently than many others. "I just feel," he said, "that the things I believe in can't go on under a Communist regime." More tangibly, however, than those of the others, the things in which "Hedge" Underwood believed were symbolized for him right there on the battlefield. Two miles west of Seoul's center stands Chosen Christian University, founded by Hedge's own grandfather and namesake, Horace Grant Underwood, one of the first Protestant missionaries to Korea...
...story of a New Zealand infantry outfit on the Italian mountain front. Mostly it is about a single platoon, and it concentrates on a single squad. It is written by a New Zealand schoolteacher who fought in the infantry for three years, was wounded and commissioned on the battlefield. He writes about his bruised, battle-numbed foot soldiers with enormous compassion and an understanding that shades into love...