Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jockey Eddie ("Heady Eddie") Arcaro, riding Brookmeade Stable's Blue Hills, was two lengths in front as the horses flashed past the grandstand for the second time in last week's $15,000 added Pimlico Cup. As he had at the end of many a 1½ mile event, Eddie pulled up. Eddie's error: the Pimlico Cup, longest of U.S. stake races, is 2½ miles. The awful truth dawned when the other horses sped by and one jockey cried derisively: "We have to go around again, buddy...
...night in 1870 an Australian horse-owner named Walter Craig had a dream: the jockeys in the Melbourne Cup race were wearing black armbands, and leading the pack down the stretch was his own horse, a rank outsider named Nimblefoot. When Craig told about his dream, everybody got a good laugh; one bookmaker offered him odds of ?1,000 to a cigar. But it meant nothing to Owner Craig when Nimblefoot, his jockey wearing a black armband, won the big race. Owner Craig had died the day before...
This is only one of the stories Aussies tell about the twomile, hell-for-leather cup race that is now far & away the biggest sporting event of teh Australian year. In 1930, when bookies were faced with bankruptcy if Phar Lap won, a car pulled up near the great horse after a workout and a rifle cracked several times. The bullets did not touch Phar Lap (and he ran and won). But in 1941 a horse name El Golea was shot by gamblers who had mistaken him for a stablemate, the red-hot Melbourne Cup favorite, Beau Vite...
Last week, after annual maneuvers off the coast, the Royal Australian Navy put into Melbourne in time to make some bets. They were joined by thousands of high-talking, high-betting landlubbers who overflowed hotels, slept on park benches. There was no overpowering favorite in this year's Cup, and no apparent skulduggery-although Count Cyrano, a lukewarm choice, fell in a workout two days before the race and had to be destroyed...
...Radcliffe dormitory wins a silver loving cup for a song tonight when the Annex holds its annual singing contest on the steps of Cabet Hall...