Word: colts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brussels airport last week, Bayeux, the fastest horse in Belgium, was coaxed into a plane. Two hours later, the plane put down at England's Bovingdon Airport to pick up another passenger. The Aga Khan's grey colt Nathoo, winner of the Irish Derby, was taken aboard. The flying horses were U.S.-bound on a forlorn hope: they were going to meet Citation, the greatest race horse...
...decade later young Sam Colt ran away from home and, aboard a ship bound for India, whittled the wooden model of a pistol that was to become the great Colt revolver. Sam did not (by 200 years) invent the revolver, but when he got into production he extended Whitney's interchangeable-part system in the direction of the present-day assembly line...
...historic race, first run in 1776: Black Tarquin,* owned by the chairman of New York's Jockey Club, William Woodward. In the Derby, Black Tarquin had finished eighth, and most bettors figured that he lacked staying powers for the mile-and-three-quarters St. Leger. The American colt, ridden by Australian Jockey Edgar Britt, settled down well to the rear, made no move until the stretch. Then, with only two furlongs to go, he put on a brilliant burst of speed to win from Alycidon, an outsider, by a length and a half. In sixth place: My Love, just...
Papa Redbird got away first, and for almost six furlongs set the pace, while Arcaro was content to lag behind. (Says Eddie: "Citation's a great competitive colt. He wants speed out in front of him.") On the far turn Citation overtook and easily passed Papa. Jockey R. L. Baird gave Papa a breather around the bend. Most of the fans, and Citation himself, seemed to figure that he had Papa licked. But in the stretch, Baird sent Papa up again. Said Baird later: "For a couple of seconds, I was an optimist. We got up within a half...
...worth their keep, to Showman Billy, were any of the Met's 38 directors: "Letting Belmont, Bliss, Colt, Dillon, Reed, Whitney, Winthrop et al. boss our most complicated entertainment venture is as daffy as letting Harpo Marx run U.S. Steel. In the old days . . . Otto Kahn and his contemporaries . . . were willing to pay for the privilege of making the Met their hobby . . . But today's directors have shown little facility with the fountain pen . . . they (should) hold one last meeting and fire themselves...