Word: counterpointed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yearling, Counterpoint cracked a bone in his ankle, and it was questionable whether he would ever get to the races ("You wouldn't have given $200 for him," said his trainer afterwards). As a two-year-old, the colt raced only twice, earning a measly $700. This year, since running a dull eleventh in the Kentucky Derby, he has turned into the runningest three-year-old in the U.S. He broke the track record at Belmont to win the Peter Pan Handicap, captured the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes, bruised a foot so badly he was laid...
Last week, in the Empire City Gold Cup, Counterpoint again met Hill Prince. The public, refusing to believe what they had seen, again made Hill Prince an overwhelming odds-on (7-20) favorite. Flawlessly ridden by Eddie Arcaro, handsome Hill Prince ran like a champion. Leggy, light-bodied Counterpoint (2-1), with his regular jockey Dave Gorman up, stayed off the pace for the first mile, moved to Hill Prince coming into the stretch and won by a length and a quarter going away...
...Whitney's Counterpoint, the $50,000-added Jockey Club Gold Cup; at Belmont Park, N.Y. Counterpoint, winner of the mile-and-one-half Belmont Stakes, final event of the triple crown, nipped 1950's Horse of the Year, Hill Prince, by a head in the two-mile event. ¶ English Jockey Gordon Richards, his 200th race this year; at Lingfield, England. Richards, now 46, has ridden more winners than any other jockey (4,377), has hit the 200 mark each season for the last six years...
...Chemists come mainly from "the lower middle class ... are seldom rebels. [Their] politics are usually a non-violent conservatism." For recreation, they enjoy listening to music, are "inclined to the classics . . . want more melody and color and less counterpoint . . . Their tastes in home decoration are definitely middle-brow...
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