Word: boland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the three-year-olds broke from the barrier, Hill Prince was the crowd's odds:on choice (7-10) to win the second event of the triple crown. Young Jockey Willie Boland took Middleground (7-2) out toward the middle of the track where the footing is often better. Hill Prince, as usual, got off slowly, with Jockey Eddie Arcaro keeping him on the rail (in the race just before the Preakness he had found the track firm there...
Smith can paint a miniature portrait with a few swift strokes, as in last week's column about little Bill Boland, the 18-year-old apprentice jockey who rode the winner of the Kentucky Derby (see SPORT): "A few minutes after the jockey room was cleared of its Derby confusion, four people [walked] down the track toward the backstretch stables. Hiking along just inside the clubhouse rail was a kid in a peaked cloth cap and leather windbreaker, with blue jeans clinging tightly to bowed legs. He carried one red rose from Middleground's blanket. The thousands...
Ireland never heard of this traffic with Beelzebub until 28 years had passed. Then, in the heat of an election, someone challenged Eamon De Valera: "Where are the Russian jewels?" Dev told how his old crony Harry Boland had hidden them at his home in Dublin. In 1922, as he lay dying from Free State bullets, anti-Free State Irish Republican Extremist Boland pledged his sister and mother never to give up the jewels until Ireland was free. Not until Britain left the Irish ports in 1938 did the Boland women turn over the treasure to Dev's government...