Word: boleros
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...California's Golden Gate Fields last week, Trainer Jones had Calumet's big bay primed for the Golden Gate Mile. But when he saw the assigned weights he groaned: despite his five straight losses, Citation was asked to lug 128 Ibs., give five to four-year-old Bolero, which had just set a world record for six furlongs. Said Jones: "Every handicapper we've come up against sticks five pounds on because of Calumet's name. If Citation wasn't so ready I wouldn...
Citation broke fast, with Brooks giving him a crack of the bat as he came out of the gate-the first time Citation had ever been whipped away from the post. But it was Bolero that set the pace, and Citation trailed him around the first turn and into the backstretch. It was a jet pace. Though the times did not count as official, Bolero was under the world records for five and six furlongs on the ultra-fast track.* Even so, he could not shake the Calumet colt...
Going into the stretch, Jockey Brooks drew his whip again, gave Citation a businesslike whack. "I wanted him to keep his mind on the race," said Brooks. Citation did. He ran down Bolero in the stretch, got home three-quarters of a length ahead. The tote board flashed the time: Citation had run the mile in 1:33 3/5, two-fifths of a second better than the world record set by his stablemate Coaltown at Washington Park last year. A moment later, the announcer verified what everybody at Golden Gate already knew: Big Cy had also beaten Stymie...
...Golden Gate is the fastest track in the U.S. World records set there: six furlongs, Bolero, 1:08 1/5; 1 1/16 mile, Count Speed, 1:41; 1 ⅛ mile, Shannon II, 1:47 3/5; 1 ¼ mile, Shannon...
Pierre Monteux clambered to the podium and picked up his baton; the orchestra swung into Strauss's Die Fledermaus. He romped them through an Enesco Rumanian Rhapsody and Ravel's Bolero, turned over his baton to a guest conductor. Then the fun & games began...