Word: colt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great horse, but he still lost a race. Native Dancer was also beaten once, and Kelso now loses almost as often as he wins. A ticket on Bret Hanover, though, is more like a U.S. Treasury bond than a bet. A hulking, 1,100-lb. colt who sleeps like a baby (ten hours a day), eats like an elephant (twelve quarts of oats a day) and is hooked on peppermint drops, Bret Hanover has been to the post 28 times and won every race-by the total margin of 100-lengths...
...Hail to All: the $147,900 Belmont Stakes, last and longest (at H mi.) of the Triple Crown races for three-year-olds; at New York's Aqueduct track. Ridden by Johnny Sellers and third choice of the bettors at 5-2, Mrs. Ben Cohen's plucky colt, born with a slightly deformed rear leg, rallied from fourth place in the stretch to beat Preakness Winner Tom Rolfe by a narrow neck...
...million, Bret owes his name to the fact that he was bred by Pennsylvania's Hanover Shoe Farms, which is owned by the board chairman of Hanover Shoe Co., and has been producing champions for 39 years. A Cleveland coal broker, Richard Downing, paid $50,000 for the colt at a yearling sale in 1963, turned him over to Trainer Ervin, who was on the verge of retiring after more than 5,500 victories on the track. Ervin took the budding pacer for a spin, and changed his plans...
...Ribot and runner-up to Lucky Debonair in the Derby, began to make his move. Jockey Turcotte remembered. Whipping righthanded, he drove Tom Rolfe straight toward the rail as if he intended to run right into Dapper Dan. At the last second before a collision. Turcotte turned his colt away. The maneuver served its purpose: for the barest instant. Dapper Dan flinched and broke stride-and in that instant Tom Rolfe won the race. Milo Valenzuela, who rode Dapper Dan, claimed foul. The stewards did their duty: they thought about it for 15 min. before they disallowed the claim. Richer...
Citing Rousmaniere's record-breaking collection of $4 million in a three-year period, Colt said he was not sufficiently acquainted with the Fund's details to offer any new proposals. Presently, he plans to continue the program along "present lines...