Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the loss was disappointing for the heavyweights, it did manage to put open water between itself and the third place finisher, Ivy League rival Penn, and the racing experience will no doubt help at this weekend's Stein Cup at Brown...
Each of the two masters worked to build a house of distinction. Merriman, a Rhodes scholar and an avid crew fan, established Eliot as a rowing powerhouse with unquestionable dominance in the College's crew cup competition...
...posthumous endorsement, to be sure; but relic hunting, by definition, has to be posthumous. If the Virgin Mary had died surrounded by Chinese soup tureens and minor Hellenistic antiquities, instead of the wooden bench (workshop of St. Joseph, estimate 20 to 30 copper pieces) and the simple tin cup that presumably furnished her abode in Jerusalem, the rush for pious souvenirs would not have been greater...
...Buckpasser (15) and, the greatest of all, Citation (16). A stone bruise to one of his hooves prevented Cigar from racing in the Santa Anita Handicap last month, so win No. 14 will have to wait until March 27, when Cigar runs in the $4 million Dubai World Cup...
...Gulfstream Park Handicap. At the Oaklawn Handicap in Arkansas last April, Cigar was accidentally whipped in the face by the jockey aboard another horse; most horses would have backed up after such a blow, but Cigar just got mad and blew away a stellar field. During the Hollywood Gold Cup in California last July, Cigar was hit in the head by a huge clod of dirt, and Bailey needed all his strength to hold back the horse before letting him go on to an easy victory. Cigar's folk-hero status was further enhanced after the Woodward Stakes at Belmont...