Word: cantering
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...horses approached the crowd on their way to the starting gate and broke into a canter. Overhead, a plane was advertising for the dog races-"Change Your Luck; Raynham Opens Tonite." The track was smooth and brown and neatly furrowed. I looked at the big board. The crowd was betting the favorite. The odds were 7-5 on Great Mystery...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Good guy (Lee Marvin), on filmdom's most unforgettable horse, saves girl (Jane Fonda) from bad guy (Lee Mar vin) in Cat Ballon (1965), one of the best western spoofs ever to canter across the screen...
...sixteenth running of the $100.000 added Woodward Stakes Saturday was listed simply as the seventh race. Arts and Letters won in a canter. At the eighth pole Baeza whispered in his ear and the colt responded by taking the lead away from the honest Nodouble...
...collar saloons and on the commuter trains was of the Cubs and Ken Holtzman's no-hitter against the Atlanta Braves. Atlanta's Mayor Ivan Allen casually headed for a ranch in Wyoming where he can get in touch with his city hall only by a horseback canter out of the woods to a telephone. In Los Angeles, the fizz and even the anti-fuzz had gone out of this month's Watts Festival, the annual community commemoration of the 1965 riots that were the first of the recent major race riots; everybody in Southern California...
...major-general during the Civil War: he flailed through Virginia with a cavalryman's flair that killed as many of his own men as those of the Rebels. After the war, as a brevet brigadier. Custer was assigned to Indian Territory and left part of his troop to canter back to his wife for "home leave." Two of his men were slaughtered en route. His final error occurred on the Little Big Horn, when Custer led more than 200 men to their deaths in an ambush by Sioux and Cheyenne on June...