Word: colt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from these qualifications for the post, Seymour practically inherited the presidency. An ancestor, Joseph Colt, received an honorary degree at the first Yale commencement in 1702. His great-great-grandfather, Thomas Clap, was president of Yale College from 1740 to 1766. His great-uncle, Jeremiah Day, filled the same office between 1817 and 1846. His grandfather, Nathan P. Seymour, was a graduate of the college, and his father, Thomas Day Seymour, was Hillhouse Professor of Greek Language and Literature...
...that charged fastest was Foxzami, a four-year-old bay colt bred in New Zealand and owned by a retired Sydney automobile spare parts dealer. Foxzami, whose fanciers had got odds of 16 to 1, won by a length and a half. The winner's purse: 8,750 Australian pounds...
...Wall Street's betting during the British general elections of 1945. Winston Churchill was favored to win over his Socialist opponent Clement Attlee. Among Britain's bookies last week, Winnie's three-year-old colt Colonist II was the odds-on favorite for the Tonbridge Plate at Lingfield Race Course. Like his owner, he came in second. The reason was that a Lingfield, as at all U.S. tracks, the horses run counterclockwise, making left turns. Colonist had won all his races to date (three) on clockwise tracks, which are more common in France and Britain. At Lingfield...
...least three blue-blooded young horses were running nose-and-nose for the two-year-old championship. The best finisher was chunky, bay Hill Prince, beaten only once-and that time by what his rider, Jockey Eddie Arcaro, confessed was "a damn bad ride." At Saratoga in August, a colt named Middle-ground outran everything in sight, and in the Midwest a streak of bay lightning known as Curtice was winning again & again. According to custom, the three of them should have had it out last week in the Belmont Futurity, the race that decides the juvenile championship...
With the cream of the crop absent, a bumper Futurity field of 14 colts and three fillies burst out of the starting gate and began the dash down the Belmont straightaway. Guillotine, a speed horse from Greentree Stable, son of 1939 Futurity Winner Bimelech, shot into the lead. The experts waited to see him chopped down at any moment. But with Jockey Ted Atkinson swinging his whip, Guillotine was still in front after covering six furlongs in i :og, and lasted the additional sixteenth of a mile to win by almost a length from Calumet Farm's highly regarded...