Word: colt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late last September, a two-year-old colt named Damascus stepped onto the track at Aqueduct for his first race. He lost...
...author of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms; he had a tough and masculine image to live up to. He harpooned a 50-ft. sperm whale off the coast of Cuba, and he also clumsily managed to shoot him self through both calves with a .22 Colt automatic. He was doing his writing at Key West in those days, and "to discourage visitors while he is at work your correspondent has hired an aged Negro who appears to be the victim of an odd disease resembling leprosy who meets visitors at the gate and says, Tse about...
Instead, I'll go with the 15-to-1 shot speed demon who finished second by a length, Barbs Delight. This colt, once bought for a meagre $2,500, fought with confirmed speed horses every step of the way to set the pace in the Derby, and he shook them off one after another. With half a mile to go, Barbs Delight passed the six furlong mark in 1 minute 10 4/5 seconds, which is faster than most horses, even good ones, manage to race when six furlongs is as far as they are going...
Even the Preakness will not answer all the questions. Back in the barn at Aqueduct is a three-year-old colt named Dr. Fager, who won the mile-long Withers Stakes so easily last Saturday that he could have taken time out in the stretch run for a dip in the track's infield lake. Whichever horse wins the Preakness will eventually have to answer...
...homestretch, said Ussery, "I hit him three or four times." With a burst, Proud Clarion drove between Damascus and Diplomat Way, past Barbs Delight, and raced on to win by a length. Afterward, Trainer Gentry allowed as how Proud Clarion had been improving so fast that he thought the colt might be a sleeper. He still sounded like the most surprised man in Kentucky. "Just think," he said, "a month ago I was just coming up to the Derby with a horse that hadn't even won a race...