Word: colt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent far more winners to U.S. tracks than anyone in history has no blue - or even bluegrass - blood in his veins. He was born on Manhattan's Upper East Side and raised in Brooklyn. He cares less about equine lineage than about spotting a well-shaped colt with a cheap price...
...Obviously recovered from ankle trouble, Clifton S. Jones's colt Warfare, the 1959 two-year-old champion from California, easily won the $27,900 Swift Stakes at New York's Aqueduct to show that he is still the top contender for May's Kentucky Derby...
...frisky two-year-olds, are training now at Hialeah side by side with those of Swaps, the great California horse that beat Nashua in the 1955 Kentucky Derby. But Mr. Fitz last week had eyes only for the Wheatley Stable's three-year-old Progressing, a capricious colt getting ready to run his first race of the season...
Giant morale sagged visibly. In the fourth quarter Colt linemen swarmed in on aging (38) Quarterback Charlie Conerly on nearly every play. Under pressure, Conerly, who had only four passes intercepted all season, began to throw in desperation. Two of his Lord-help-us heaves were picked off by Baltimore's nimble defensive backs, one for a 42-yd. touchdown return, the other to set up a scoring pass by the redoubtable Unitas. Final score: Baltimore 31, New York...