Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looping the Field. The way he goes about winning makes the victories even gaudier. In July's $100,000 Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct, Gun Bow galloped 1¼ miles in 1 min. 593/5 sec.-the fastest mile-and-a-quarter in the history of New York racing. He won by twelve lengths. In the $54,300 Whitney Stakes at Saratoga last month, Gun Bow was unruly in the gate, broke dead last. Charging after the field, he suddenly spotted a leaf on the track, set himself like a steeplechaser approaching a hedge, and jumped. Then he settled down...
...Bow was golden, all right. A sudden summer shower had turned the track at Chicago's Arlington Park slow and sloppy-but that did not bother him a bit. Neither did the fact that he had to concede up to 23 Ibs. to eleven of the best handicap horses in the Midwest. The big bay made a shambles of the $114,750 Washington Handicap two Saturdays ago. Leaping in front at the start, he stayed there all the way-fighting off four separate challenges, drawing out by two lengths at the wire. "A lot of horses found out they...
Better than Liniment. Gun Bow is a race horse calculated to take anybody's breath away. A strapping (16 hands) four-year-old, he was bred by Elizabeth Arden Graham, the cosmetics manufacturer, who insists on rubbing Ardena cold cream on her horses' legs (she claims that it is better than liniment). Sired by the stallion Gun Shot, who broke down before he could prove his racing potential, foaled by an undistinguished War Admiral mare, Gun Bow showed practically nothing as a two-year-old. Last year he won six races and a respectable $41,292. Faced with...
...took Gun Bow just three trips to the track to win back his purchase price. A victory in the San Fernando Stakes at Santa Anita last January was worth $26,125; the C. H. Strub Stakes brought in $87,500 more and the San Antonio Handicap added another $36,200. But that was just the beginning. So far this year, Gun Bow has accounted for seven major stakes and swelled his bankroll...
...last week the freak was an odds-on favorite for yet another honor: the title of Horse of the Year, monopolized for four seasons by Mrs. Richard C. duPont's great gelding Kelso-whom Gun Bow will meet in the $100,000 added Aqueduct Stakes on Labor Day. (Last week Kelso demonstrated that he was ready for the encounter by tying the American record for 1⅛miles on the turf in a warm-up race at Saratoga.) Gun Bow had also changed owners again. Keeping a 40% interest for themselves, Albert and Mrs. Stanley sold the other...