Word: colt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like growths on his shinbones. Nonetheless, he had won six straight stakes and $392,996, and odds makers already had installed him as the 8-5 favorite to win the Kentucky Derby May 1. Nobody paid much attention to Isador Bieber's Flag Raiser (odds: 7-1), a colt that anybody could have claimed for $7,000 last April-if anybody had wanted him. True, Flag Raiser had won two in a row, including this month's Gotham Stakes, by a total of 91 lengths, but the railbirds insisted that he was strictly "early speed...
Well, they can't in the Astrodome either - in daytime, anyway. Last week its resident tenants, the Houston Astros (formerly the Colt .45s), played their first day game under the steel and plastic dome, against their own Oklahoma City farm hands. As a precautionary measure, outfielders wore batting helmets in the field. They needed them. Unable to follow the flight of the ball against the jigsaw pattern of the roof, the players staggered about like asphyxiated cockroaches as fly ball after fly ball dropped at their feet. When they quit after seven innings, the Astros were ahead...
Breaks of the Game. Promising yearlings sell for $20,000 up, and at last summer's Keeneland sales a colt was auctioned for $170,000. The horse has to be stabled, fed, trained to race; at big Eastern tracks that costs $15 a day. The vet collects $10 or so to give the animal an aspirin, and the blacksmith charges $18.50 for a set of shoes. A man could be out of pocket $100,000 or more by Derby time for his three-year-old. He then pays $100 for the original nomination, $250 to pass the entry...
...Financier Louis Wolfson has been at it for years. In 1961 he had a top prospect in Roving Minstrel, but one day Roving Minstrel reared over backward, damaged his brain, and had to be destroyed. "The breaks of the game," sighed Wolfson, and coughed up $39,000 for another colt, Raise a Native. The horse won four races, smashed two track records -and broke down. Or consider the case of Christopher Chenery, utilities magnate, Derbyphile. On the day before the 1962 Derby, Chenery's Sir Gaylord was the 8-5 favorite. That same day he stepped into a hole...
Flipping a Fillip. Baltimore was double-teaming Cleveland's Split End Paul Warfield, so Collins had only one man to beat. Midway in the third quarter, he did a fancy little two-step, left Colt Defender Jerry Logan sprawled on the turf, gathered in a picture pass from Ryan for 42 yds. and another TD. Lou Groza boosted the score to 20-0 with his second field goal. In the fourth quarter, Collins added the final fillip-reaching back over his shoulder to pull in another wonderful 41-yd. pass at the 10, shrugging Defensive Halfback Bobby Boyd...