Word: bi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slightly bent man with wispy white hair and Santa Claus eyes, Bi Shively has won "scores" of trots and paces. But he had never managed to win the richest harness race of all-the Hambletonian classic, which determines the top three-year-old U.S. trotter. In 1947 he copped the Hambletonian's first heat, but he failed to repeat and take...
...last week at the kite-shaped Good Time track in Goshen, N.Y., Bi donned his maroon-and-gold driver's colors. At 74, he reckoned he was now old enough to win the big one. He also figured that his trotter, Sharp Note, a bay colt bought as a yearling for $1,000 by Dearborn Manufacturer Clyde W. Clark, was good enough. At Santa Anita this spring, Sharp Note won two starts, and set a track record for three-year-old trotters-a 2 min. 2 4/5 sec. mile-the fastest race time posted this year...
...some 15,000 fans who turned out for the $87,637 Hambletonian did not agree with Bi Shively's figuring. They made Sharp Note their third choice, bet heaviest on Coca-Cola Heir Walter T. Candler's three-year-old Duke of Lullwater, and on Hit Song, owned by the Arden Homestead Stable and Lawrence B. Sheppard...
...start of the first heat, Sharp Note "broke" (i.e., went into a gallop, had to be reined back, lost time until he resumed trotting), but he regained enough ground to finish tenth behind winning Hit Song. Facing perhaps his last chance ever to win the Hambletonian, old Bi gently explained the situation to young Sharp Note...
...swung wide by Shively, took a clear lead, pounded home in front of the Duke in his best race time ever, 1/5 sec. better than his Santa Anita mark. A 19-to-20 odds-on favorite in the third heat, Sharp Note finally brought the crowd around to Bi's original conclusion. Lagging back in the field until the last turn, he again showed his wallop in the homestretch, beat Hit Song by two lengths, going away. Sharp Note's purse...