Word: colts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...runnings of the Preakness Stakes before last Saturday, and many a great duel between horses and their riders. But the 103rd Preakness was as thrilling and cannily run a race as any in the history of this Triple Crown classic. Harbor View Farm's Affirmed, a splendid chestnut colt that can win from the front or the field, was masterfully paced by Steve Cauthen, who showed once again that, at 18, he already has the incandescence of greatness...
Breaking cleanly from the gate, Cauthen guided the handsome and trim chestnut colt into a comfortable gallop off the lead through the backstretch, rating Affirmed gently for the push to the finish line. As the field streaked into the final turn, he urged Affirmed into the lead, whipping, then hand-riding, opening a generous gap that carried Affirmed to the wire an easy winner. For the blacksmith's son from Walton, Ky., the transition from toddler on the backstretch to top jock was complete...
...stock market has come alive, industrial production is growing like a young colt, and 4 million more Americans are at work than a year ago. Then why do so many people feel so skeptical and tentative about the economy...
...notch. Prices of imported goods rise, and so do those of the U.S.-made products that compete with foreign merchandise. Example: the prices of Japanese-made Hondas and Toyotas. German-made Volkswagens, even models produced abroad by U.S. makers (like Ford's Fiesta and Dodge's Colt) all have risen since October. Administration officials now say that the dollar's decline will add one-half to three-quarters of a point to the inflation rate this year...
...settings in crisp detail. Ritt has the good sense to stretch out the tense race sequences (with slow motion, if necessary) and gallop by the story's mawkish father-son, brother-brother and child-horse confrontations. He even gets away with the overheated scenes that depict the star colt's birth and its mother's untimely death...