Word: colts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colt's Jolt. In Hartford last week, Colt's Manufacturing Co., one of the biggest U.S. small-arms manufacturers, drew a bead on C.I.O.'s United Electrical, Radio & Machinery Workers of America. Colt charged that the union's record "of obstructing national policies" might endanger the company's fulfillment of armament orders, and refused to renew its contract. Under the Taft-Hartley law, the union could not bring charges of unfair labor practices before the National Labor Relations Board; its officers had refused to swear they were not Communists...
Baking Powder Magic. This week at Pimlico, on the fringe of Baltimore, he will be boosted up on Citation, the same long-barreled bay colt he won with at Louisville, and shoot for the Preakness. The race will be half a furlong shorter than the Derby, a difference that favors Citation's chief rival, a stablemate named Coaltown...
...Jamaica, N.Y., the East's best hope in this week's Kentucky Derby-a chestnut colt named My Request-won the $40,000 added Wood Memorial Stakes, then headed for Louisville to do battle with Calumet Farm's prize Kentucky pair, Citation and Coaltown. Running as an entry, C & C would be such odds-on favorites (about 25? to the dollar) that nobody could make much money betting on them-and it seemed almost foolhardy to bet against them...
...morning last week, before the dew was off the bluegrass at Kentucky's Keeneland track, a bay colt broke and ran. Stop watches ticked away. The naked eye could tell what the watches verified: that the bay colt was really covering ground. Coaltown worked five furlongs in the fastest training time-:58 2/5-ever run at Keeneland. Warren Wright's Calumet Farm, which seems to have a monopoly on racing's fastest horses (Armed, Bewitch, Citation, Fervent and Faultless), had developed another...
Just how good is Coaltown? Bookmakers had already made him No. 2 in the Kentucky Derby winter book. Said Trainer Ben Jones, casually: "A nice colt, but he hasn't had the experience. Citation is the greatest horse in the country." No man to hedge his bets, Ben also trains Citation, the even-money favorite to win Kentucky's greatest horse race...