Word: bended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winter, racing fans looked forward to the next meeting of Candy Spots and Never Bend in the Kentucky Derby. The race was billed as a two-horse affair, a battle between East and West, reminiscent of the epic Nashua-Swaps duels...
Still, the skeptics weren't convinced. A week later No Robbery was entered in the $90,800 Wood Memorial, where he would meet two of the better three-year-olds in the country, Bonjour and Crewman. (Crewman had polished off Never Bend by nine lengths in a race last year.) No Robbery's opponents never saw anything but the colt's posterior; although jockey John rots was fighting in vain to keep the horse running straight, he won by 2 1/2 lengths, a second off the track record for 1 1/4 miles...
Candy spots, Never Bend, and No Robbery are the prime contenders for the garland of roses, but three other horses have reasonable chances to pull an upset. Bonjour won the Derby Trial yesterday, and earlier in the year lost to Candy Spots by a nose so small that it took four enlargements of the photo finish picture to determine the winner...
...year-old named Chateaugay: after a mediocre season as a two-year-old, he has won three straight this year over extremely lacklustre competition. A glance at his times makes Chateaugay look very good on paper. Candy spots has raced a mile-and-one-eight in 1:51.6; Never Bend's best at the route was 1:49.4; No Robbery took the Wood in 1:49.2. Chateaugay won his last race, the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland, in a phenomenal...
...many good horses, where none is vastly superior to the rest of the field, the winner will probably be determined by the pace and strategy of the race. No Robbery will shoot into the lead at the start and try to hold the lead all the way. Never Bend, Bonjour, and Chateaugay will all run close to the pace. It is doubtful that No Robbery can last the distance with such tremendous pressure on him every step of the way. Toward the top of the stretch. Never Bend and Chateaugay will make their move against the leader...