Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the three-year-old season, the Dancer saw to it that the halt en route was not omitted. He took the other bright gemstones of the Triple Crown, the Preakness at a mile and three-sixteenths and the Belmont at a mile and a half, and just about every other three-year-old prize worth having east of the Mississippi. It proved that in addition to speed, the Dancer had stamina; the greater the distance, the better he seemed to go. But in September 1953 Trainer Winfrey detected some soreness in the Dancer's left forefoot...
...Maryland's Pimlico track, Hasty Road, a front runner all the way, nipped favored (9-10) Correlation by a neck in the $140,150 Preakness Stakes, second event in racing's triple crown for three-year-olds...
...three-year-old, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Native Dancer became something of a TV matinee idol. Racing for the triple crown, the great grey put on three breathtaking finishing sprints that would have done credit to "Snapper" Garrison, the jockey who became immortal for his come-from-behind finishes. The Dancer lost the Kentucky Derby by a head, won the Preakness by a neck, won the Belmont by an even shorter neck. Last week the Dancer, now a full-grown four-year-old, was back again, this time going after racing's triple handicap crown (the Metropolitan, Suburban...
...Died. Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia, 67, widow of the late Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and daughter-in-law of Germany's last emperor, the late Kaiser Wilhelm II; after long illness; in Bad Kissingen, Germany...
RAKE ROCHESTER (224 pp.]-Charles Norman-Crown...