Word: colt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sportswriters' first choice is Alsab (TIME, Jan. 12)-despite the fact that he has failed to win a race in six starts this year. Their second choice is Requested, the Texas colt that beat Alsab in Florida's Flamingo Stakes last February and beat Apache, pride of Broadway, in New York's Wood Memorial last week. Kentucky hard-boots like the looks of a pair of colts owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: Shut Out, a worthy son of the late great Equipoise, and Devil Diver, rated the most promising Whitney youngster since Twenty Grand. Some diehards still...
This Saturday, when a dozen three-year-olds parade to the post for the 68th running of the Kentucky Derby, the favorite will probably be one of these colts. But many a wise old railbird, well aware that the post-time favorite has won the Derby only 33 times out of 67, will hitch his money to a dark horse-maybe With Regards, the rheumatic $800 nag that won the Arkansas Derby last month; or Hollywood, a big Irish-bred colt imported by Texas Cattleman Emerson Woodward last fall and quoted at odds of 100-to-1 in the Derby...
...pioneer of mass production through interchangeable parts, the typewriter industry ranks close behind Singer, Cadillac and Colt's Patent Fire Arms. Today its array of small precision tools is one of the most impressive in the U.S. WPB told the industry last week not to expect new special tools for its munitions work, but to use what it has. Not to save steel (typewriters took only some 25,000 tons last year) but to mobilize these tools was the main objective of WPB's curtailment plans...
...knocked down for only $700 at the Saratoga auction sales. Last week, in front of the insect-proof cage that surrounds Sab's stall at Hialeah Park, his owner, Lawyer Albert Sabath of Chicago, set up champagne for hundreds of two-legged guests, drank a toast to the colt that has already won $110,610 for him, the colt with whom he would not part for a quarter of a million. For Alsab is considered the most promising racehorse since...
Chuckled Trainer August ("Sarge") Swenke, World War I hero and one of the turf's inveterate gamblers, who persuaded Lawyer Sabath to put out $700 for the Good Goods colt: "Alsab's going to make the old Sarge a great trainer...