Word: colts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tension is now the password in Barn 42, as Greer and trainer Leroy Jolley await the biggest test of Foolish Pleasure's racing career. While the colt has captured headline after headline on route to ten victories in eleven career starts, the rapid development of other powerful contenders has drastically changed the complexion of the 101st Derby...
...Wood Memorial was only Media's fourth lifetime start, and the colt matched Greer's champion almost stride for stride throughout, finishing just one length behind. Campo complained after the race that his jock, Jean Cruget, had moved the horse a little too soon, and that he should have waited until the stretch...
...slow to meet the growing small-car market. With the Valiant and the popular Dodge Dart, Chrysler today has the largest share (32%) of compact-car sales, but its biggest product investment last year was in a costly redesign of its full-sized cars. Its one subcompact, the Dodge Colt, is built by Japan's Mitsubishi, and has not caught on especially well with U.S. buyers. Chrysler does plan to introduce three new compacts this fall, but the one new subcompact on its drawing boards will be built by Chrysler's French subsidiary and not imported into...
...growing preference for small cars. Between 1965 and 1973, sales of small imported cars jumped 200%, to 1.7 million. This evidence of the change in tastes was later reinforced by the popularity of such subcompacts as the Ford Pinto, the Chevrolet Vega, the American Motors Gremlin and the Dodge Colt. American Motors Chairman Roy Chapin read the signs astutely and steered his faltering company almost exclusively into small cars-a providential move that greatly helped...
...warmed my heart to read that Secretariat, the male superstud, had sired a colt [Nov. 25] in Winona, Minn. Thanks for a conversational piece other than budgets, inflation and Watergate...