Word: colt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past three years a chestnut colt with a long blond tail has earned twice as much money as the President of the U.S. Last week, in winning the $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs, Warren Wright's Whirlaway upped his lifetime earnings to $454,336 and eclipsed Charles Howard's Seabiscuit as the biggest money winner in the history of horse racing. Owner Wright turns 10% of Whirlaway's earnings into war bonds...
Last week Canadians were reminded that even ah Ace can be trumped. Starting out like a whizz-ten lengths in front at three furlongs, 20 in front at the halfway mark-the colt that had wiped out all bets for the Derby fizzled on the last turn. He finished last...
...Chariot, a saucy little filly, had flounced off with the Thousand Guineas and the Oaks. Big Game, a rugged, easygoing colt, had taken the Two Thousand Guineas. Now it was up to Big Game again, and loyal Britons made him the hottest Derby favorite since 1918. With Imperial pride, the crowd followed the royal colors: out in front at the half-mile, the mile, the mile-and-a-quarter. Then suddenly the purple & gold seemed to stand still. In front at the finish was the Earl of Derby's Watling Street...
Last week scrawny little Alsab lined up with Shut Out, Valdina Orphan, Colchis and six other rivals for the $75,000 Preakness, second of the season's rich classics for three-year-olds. The Ol' Sarge was still convinced that his game little colt, even after eight straight defeats, was the best of the lot. Others among the 42,000 who crammed the ancient Pimlico race track thought so too, for Alsab went to the post the favorite...
...this reviewer Robert Frost has never seemed the sage for which he has so frequently been taken. His best poems, ranking with any in contemporary American literature, have been those drawn directly from knowledge of the New England scene. In lyrics like "The Colt" or narratives such as "The Death of the Hired Man" there is an unalloyed completeness of sympathy which is lacking when the author turns to broader themes. Though pleasant in its occasional lyrics, too much of this book is composed of brief epigrammatic lessons for the young. From a poet of greater intellectual stature such preachments...