Word: bended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Candy Spots Tops Never Bend...
...colt won two minor races at Chicago, his jockey, Willie Shoemaker, advised the horse's owner to shell out $25,000 and make him a supplementary nominee for the $347,000 Washington-Arlington Futurity, in which he would face the best two-years-old in the nation, Never Bend. Candy Spots stumbled at the start of the race; as Never Bend moved toward the lead at the half-mile of the seven-furlong event, Candy Spots was still 7 1/2 lengths behind. But the son of Swaps began moving at a torrid pace, overhauled Never Bend in the final strides...
Candy Spots was clearly the better horse, and his Futurity performance suggested that he would decimate any horse his age in the country at longer distances, but Never Bend was nonetheless voted the leading two-year-old in the nation last year. In 13 races he has won ten and never finished worse than third; Never Bend's lifetime earnings of $502,000 make him the richest horse ever to compete in the Derby...
...Payson, owner of the oft-defeated New York Mets, bore out on the stretch turn, still romped to a two-length victory that ran his record to five straight, stamped him as a strong contender-along with Rex Ellsworth's Candy Spots and Harry Guggenheim's Never Bend-for next week's Kentucky Derby...
Sound Ground. In a drumfire of propaganda outbursts, Indonesia hailed the "Brunei freedom fighters," lashed out at "British mercenaries and puppets," granted political asylum to Brunei Leader Azahari, raved that Abdul Rahman was "round the bend." (Retorted the Tunku: "What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?") Djakarta mobs hanged the Tun ku in effigy, and Sukarno declared a "policy of confrontation" against Malaya. Indonesian jets buzzed Malayan ships in the South China Sea, and army leaders darkly threatened "incidents of physical conflict" along the border of Brunei and Indonesia...