Word: bended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Candy Spots' main competition will come not from Chateaugay, but Never Bend. The New York horse has won more than $500,000 in his 14-race career, and has never finished worse than third. The conditions of the Preakness are more favorable to Never Bend than the Derby, in which he ran second. Never Bend is a front-runner and the Preakness is a shade shorter than the Derby. Further more, No Robbery, the horse whose stout pressure helped tire Never Bend after he had run the first six furlongs of the Derby in a blistering...
Candy Spots will beat out Never Bend, followed by Sky Wonder, Chateaugay, On My Honor, Lemon Twist, and Country Squire...
Gunnoe, who couldn't bend over because of his injured back, was shut out for the rest of the afternoon. The entire attacking trio of Gunnoe, Ames, and Lou Williams was held to just two goals and three assists over the 60 minute span...
Rounding the stretch turn, No Robbery ran out of steam and began to fade. Never Bend was tiring, too, but he was all by himself in the lead: caught in tight quarters along the rail, Willie Shoemaker was forced to check Candy Spots and take him wide. Then he swung his whip-and nothing happened. "I asked Spots to run," Shoemaker said sadly, "but he just wasn't there." One horse was there: Chateaugay. Ranging up on the outside, Chateaugay zoomed past No Robbery as if the two were traveling in opposite directions. Then he caught Candy Spots...
...perennial local favorite, have actually shown some early season promise. Utilizing trick weapons such as home runs by .161 batters, and home run sluggers who can't run or bend over, they have flirted with the idea of entering the first division. Under new manager Johnny Pesky, many wonderful changes have been made. For example, the Sox now run onto the filed. In fact, mirabile dictu, most of this New Breed even run out infield grounders. The effect of this unaccustomed strain is, as yet, undetermined. But, many old, seasoned observers fear that it may prove disastrous...