Word: bended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said he thought if the Committee were pressured to nominate a particular candidate, it would "bend over backward" to choose someone else...
Each horse is impeccably sired: Never Bend by the Irish stallion Nasrullah (other offspring: Nashua, Bold Ruler, Jaipur), Candy Spots by the Argentine stakes winner Nigromante. As a matter of fact, the two horses seem so closely matched that even the oddsmakers are having trouble. Last week in Tijuana, Mexico bookies quoted Never Bend at 2 to 1 to win the Kentucky Derby, Candy Spots...
...there the similarity ends. A medium-sized colt with a shining dark bay coat, Never Bend likes to grab an early lead and fight off challengers. Candy Spots is a strapping chestnut with curious black and white spots on his rump, who prefers to dwell in the pack, then turn on a withering burst of speed in the stretch. And the horses could hardly have more contrasting jockeys. Never Bend's regular rider is fiery Panamanian Manuel Ycaza, 25, whose terrible-tempered tactics earn him almost as much time on suspension as in the saddle. Candy Spots...
...racing. His 25-1 longshot, Dark Star, won the 1953 Derby -handing Native Dancer the only defeat of his career. Guggenheim does not believe in overworking a race horse. "My only concern with racing today is to try to keep a horse sound," he says. But Never Bend has been so busy that he stands a good chance of becoming U.S. racing's first three-year-old millionaire...
Guggenheim and Ellsworth have matched their prize colts once before. Never Bend and Candy Spots met as two-year-olds at last summer's $357,250 Arlington-Washington Futurity in Chicago. It was a bad day all around for Guggenheim. Candy Spots won by a half-length, and Never Bend's Jockey Ycaza was grounded for 60 days for a "completely unwarranted" claim of foul. Yet both horses were operating under handicaps. Never Bend had sprained a back muscle at Saratoga, and Candy Spots, still green, was running in only his third race. "Candy Spots won magnificently," Guggenheim...