Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty sure that crafty Ben Jones, the Calumet trainer, had things under control-even if he did come from Missouri. Ben's record proved conclusively that he knew how to saddle a Kentucky Derby winner: Lawrin (1938), Whirlaway (1941), Pensive (1944). Faultless was the Kentucky horse to beat...
...nation's leading trainer last year, said that On Trust was the most knowing race horse he had ever worked with. On the figures, as the one Derby candidate who had run and won a mile and a quarter test, Molter's colt was the horse to beat...
This week, Phalanx' Derby odds took a tumble to 2-1 (Faultless, 3-1; On Trust, 6-1). At that price, he was definitely a horse to beat. Phalanx, lagging less than usual, had just copped one division of Jamaica's $40,000 Wood Memorial. He ran the mile and a sixteenth, apparently under wraps, in 1:43 4/5. His jockey, long-nosed Eddie Arcaro, is the best stakes rider in the business and he is just as intent as Calumet's Ben Jones on winning his fourth Derby...
...last season's record alone, the Scarlet and Grey Engineers have a decided edge in today's regatta. Jim McMillan's varsity beat the Crimson three times in '46 and was called "the second best crew in the country" by no less a person than Tom Bolles at the close of the season. The Engineers' time trials have reportedly been extremely successful thus far. Princeton is the only one of the three to have raced already this year, having opened its campaign a week ago by beating Penn across the line by a trifle more than a length. The Tigers...
Rowing downstream to counteract a strong wind and quartering chop, the Crimson jumped into an immediate lead and breezed over the one-mile course to win going away, with two lengths of open water between them and Tech. Stroke Julian Roosevelt settled into a smooth 32 beat which left the Engineers behind...