Word: colts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neither had won-or even finished in the money. It was a bad day for Armed and Assault (it was the last race Assault would ever run). But it was a worse one for Max Hirsch. The 16-to-1 shot that won the race was a handsome chestnut colt named El Mono, which Max had trained and lost in a claiming race a few months ago for a mere...
Bleeding but upright, Vail turned from the phone, pulling his Colt from its hip holster; he pumped six shots at the manacled prisoners. Deliberately, he reloaded and pumped six more. When the smoke cleared away, both men were dead...
...Colt drove over to the Pratt home in Fredericksburg, piled the packages in the back of his station wagon and brought them back to the red brick museum in Richmond. When he recalls how casually he treated these treasures, he shudders...
...sounded good, but how good? Thomas Colt Jr., director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, had no idea. All he knew was that a wealthy Mrs. John Lee Pratt had willed to the museum her collection of the last Russian Czar's family trinkets...
Last week thousands crowded the museum for a look. They were not allowed to see all the treasures at once. Skittish Director Colt had only 30 of the 600 on show. Until the museum gets a new, burglarproof wing, the rest will stay hidden in vaults at the bank...