Word: capote
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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Second Choice. Gaver thought so too. What he didn't want to do was to run Capot in the Special against a Calumet entry of Coaltown and Ponder-with Coaltown setting a murderous pace and Ponder coming from behind in the stretch. By threatening to keep his horse in the barn, Gaver forestalled that possibility...
When Coaltown and Capot finally met last weekend, the big surprise was that Maryland's knowledgeable horse players had made Capot a distinct second choice. Coaltown was the red-hot favorite at 3 to 10-just as though Capot had never measured his heart for size in the Sysonby...
First Turn. Capot, stung by a slash from Jockey Ted Atkinson's whip, gave everything he had from the break. The strategy was obvious.: stay with Coaltown, and make him give up. Atkinson kept shaking the reins and yelling at his mount. Alongside him, Jockey Steve Brooks did his best to pump a little extra speed from Coaltown. Like a runaway team, the two horses thundered past the grandstand and into the first turn...
...crowd, which seldom gets noisy until the last quarter-mile of a race, sensed that the climax would come early and set up a swelling roar. Then, suddenly, it was all over. With Capot saving ground on the rail, he nosed ahead on the turn. Coaltown tried but could not keep up. Down the backstretch Capot's lead lengthened to two lengths, then to four. Brooks hit Coaltown only once, got no response, and did not punish him needlessly...
...Capot, who has never been beaten at Pimlico, pounded down the home stretch a dozen lengths in front. His time for the mile-and-three-sixteenths: 1:56 4/5, less than a second off the track record he set in winning the Preakness last...