Word: colt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...royal box atop the vast grandstand, the Queen fidgeted nervously as the 28-horse field nudged the starting tapes. The early favorites included two U.S.-owned colts: Mrs. Ralph Strassburger's white-socked Moutiers (7 to 1) and Mrs. Oliver Iselin's Pardao (10 to 1). Little attention was paid to Pardao's lackluster half brother, a British-trained colt named Psidium. "We're not backing him much. My husband has only a few bob on him," admitted Psidium's owner, Mme. Arpad Plesch. Bookies in London's newly legalized horse parlors thought even...
Psidium started dead last. But as the horses pounded through the tight arc of Tattenham Corner and into the stretch, Jockey Roger Poincelet, aboard Psidium, lazily swung his whip. The colt responded with an astonishing burst of speed that carried him into the lead and under the wire two lengths ahead of his closest pursuer...
...quarter horses at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm) stood in the rain at New York's Belmont Park with 51,585 other breed improvers to watch the 93rd running of the Belmont Stakes. For Ike, as for everyone else, the star attraction was Carry Back-a little, long-tailed colt who had won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. and needed only the Belmont to become the first horse in 13 years to capture the fabled Triple Crown...
...trounced every other horse in the race. "The only thing that can beat him," crowed Owner Jack Price, "is bad racing luck." By post time, Carry Back was a prohibitive 2-to-5 favorite-every other entry was a long shot. Longest shot of all was a dark bay colt named Sherluck, who had won only one stakes race in two years. The odds on Sherluck...
...jangling, come-from-behind performance-has caused many an anxious moment. In the Wood Memorial at New York's Aqueduct race track.,Carry Back dawdled well off the pace as the pack pounded into the stretch-and anxious Jockey Sellers desperately whaled him with his whip. Angered, the colt pinned back his ears, curled his lips in a defiant snarl, and refused to run. He finished a bad second to Globemaster, whom he later beat decisively in both the Derby and the Preakness. Jockey Sellers has never whipped Carry Back since...