Word: bim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel Edward Bradley's Bimelech would make their pets look like plugs, all but seven of the country's top-notch turfmen withdrew their entries for the Kentucky Derby the week before the race. Last week, when 95,000 fans crammed into Churchill Downs to watch Big Bim romp off with America's No. 1 horse race, many a rival owner had already phrased his felicitations to Colonel Bradley, too ill to watch his latest (and probably last) hopeful...
Last week, 13,000 racing fans turned out at Kentucky's Keeneland Park to watch Big Bim run in the Blue Grass Stakes, his first appearance as a three-year-old. With ailing, 80-year-old Colonel Bradley watching from his car near the clubhouse, Bimmy, floating along with his tongue stuck out and his eyes half-closed, proved that he is just as good at three as he was at two. On a slow track, without any urging, he ran the 1⅛ miles in 1:51 flat, beating Joseph Widener's Roman by two lengths...
...sooner had the results of the Blue Grass Stakes been flashed across the U. S. than odds against Big Bim dropped from 2-to-1 to 4-to-5 in the future books-first time in Derby history that a horse was quoted an odds-on favorite before the day of the race. While bookmakers stopped taking bets on Big Bim, horse players turned their attention to his dwarfed rivals: Arnold Hanger's Dit (winner of last week's Wood Memorial), William L. Brann's Pictor (who romped off with the Chesapeake Stakes fortnight ago), Charles...