Word: colt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belmont Park was hot and humid as the three-horse field reached the post for the 54th running of the Lawrence Realization Stakes. It was not the kind of day on which a smart colt would want to run 1⅝ miles - especially when his cut of the $25,000 added purse would only amount to an extra mouthful of oats. And the favorite, Mahout, who twice recently had bested the triple crown winner, Assault, was an intelligent beast. He was also without guile...
Born. To Ethel Barrymore Colt, 33, actress-singer daughter of great trouper Ethel Barrymore, and John R. Miglietta, fiftyish, American Republics Corp. executive: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: John Drew. Weight...
...Goshen, N.Y., long the mecca of harness horsemen, the Hambletonian had its 21st renewal. Winner: a bay colt named Chestertown, bought the week before the race by Walter E. Smith, a rags-to-riches West Coast industrialist turned harness-racing promoter. Driver: grizzled, 72-year-old Tom Berry, who had broken two ribs and his wrist in a spill two days earlier...
...first turn, a 6½-to -1 hopeful with a good record, The Dude, took the lead never to be headed. A pint-sized chestnut colt bred by Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, he had been picked up in $4,000 claiming race last year. It took The Dude just 2 min. 2.6 sec. to win the Classic purse of $76,850 for his owner, Mrs. Al Gaal of New Orleans...
Unable to persuade Trippe, Morgan and Colt got out. That made everything simple. Juan Trippe once again took over the whole caboodle of Pan Am's top jobs (acting board chairman, president, and chairman of the executive committee). His monopoly over his airline was once again complete...