Word: bogskar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next to the last of the 30 jumps -after leading for nearly four miles-Royal Danieli toppled, lay motionless on the emerald-green turf while Co-Favorite MacMoffat and lightly fancied Bogskar led the field past him. Neck & neck MacMoffat and Bogskar took the last fence...
Down the homestretch they galloped, long-striding Bogskar opening more & more daylight with each stride, crossing the finish line four lengths ahead of MacMoffat, ten lengths ahead of Gold Arrow...
...seven-year-old Bogskar, Irish-bred (as usual) and owned by England's Lord Stalbridge, it was the race of his young life. In his first start over the toughest steeplechase course in the world (4½ miles), he had posted the second fastest time in its history, only one-fifth of a second slower than the record (9 min., 20| sec.) set by Golden Miller in 1934. "It was like riding in a wheel chair," said Jockey Marvin Jones, a 20-year-old Welshman who had never seen the awesome Aintree course before, had been given 48 hours...
Among 13 horses who failed to finish were the two U. S.-owned entries: Poloist Louis Stoddard Jr.'s Milano and Poloist Jock Whitney's National Night, who, none the less proud because he was riderless, galloped across the finish line in front of Bogskar...
...Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes, because of wartime mail restrictions, collected only $700,000 instead of the customary $10,000,000. Only two tickets were drawn on each starting horse instead of the customary dozen or more. In the U. S., only one person held a ticket on Bogskar: an ex-Bronx prize fighter named August Ruggiere, who hit the jackpot for $105,000 last week just as he was beginning to wonder where his next hamburger was coming from...
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