Word: colt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classic race hosted the likes of Majestic Prince, the only horse in history to enter the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont undefeated. Going into last week's mile-and-a-half Belmont, the last and longest leg of racing's Triple Crown, the strapping chestnut colt had run and won nine races in a row. Had he won, he would have been the first thoroughbred to take the Triple Crown since Citation turned the trick...
...horse field. Rokeby Stable's Arts and Letters, the tireless little sprinter who challenged the Prince right down to the wire in the Derby and the Preakness, figured to be an even stronger contender at the longer distance. Then there was Dike, the game, never-quit colt who, with five weeks' rest, was more than up to staging one of his patented come-from-nowhere finishes...
...Jockey Bill Hartack, apparently thrown off stride by the slow early pace, made his bid coming into the homestretch. It was too late. Driving for the wire, Arts and Letters held the lead and won going away by 51 lengths over Majestic Prince, with Dike third. The game little colt picked up first-prize money of $104,050 and new status as one of the Belmont's foremost spoilers...
Arts and Letters surged after the tiring giant. The Rokeby Stable colt steadily gained and in mid-stretch seemed to be easily overtaking The Prince, but Arts and Letters did not get to the wire in time. The rest of the field was stretched out from four to twenty lengths behind...
Given the violence of the age, says Rosa, the "gunfighter" was largely created through the mechanical ingenuity of one man: Samuel Colt. By 1861, there were nine main varieties of Colt revolvers (mostly known as "Peacemakers" or "hog-legs") in use on the frontier. They constituted the most dramatic revolution in sheer firepower since the invention of the musket. Colt revolvers were fast and reliable. In superior hands they could regularly hit a five-inch circle at 50 yards. At 100 yards, the Peacemaker could drive a bullet more than three inches into a pine plank. With such a weapon...