Word: cups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...horse with the greatest potential--and the worst luck--whose very story was a fairy tale of racing history, ended his career on the home turn of the running of the jockey Club Gold Cup. He broke from the inside and sat in third place for most of the way, until that single fatal stride canceled an almost certain victory in his last scheduled race before retirement...
...with the crossbite watches them go out and gulps down the puddle in his coffee-cup. He signals for another cup. "So what's the history of this place?" he asks the counterman...
...with the crossbite puts down his cup. "Nineteen twenty-eight? Fifty, sixty...sixty-two, sixty-four years. That taxi driver's been here sixty-four years." The counterman looks outside: there is no taxi in sight...
...counterman goes to a sink by the pay phone to wash his hands, and the man with the crossbite drinks down the rest of his cup. It is now 4:15--time to leave the Tasty--so the other customer finishes off his lime rickey, pays his bill, and walks out the door...
...outside post position, but it says here that she gets out quickly and holds on in the stretch. Down it Belmont(also 1:15), I've got feelings for Fair Rosalind in the fifth (with fading thoughts about Timely Writer in the eighth--the $500,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup. Rosalind is packing a hefty 122 pounds, but as dark horse or dark lady, she's a good but to be the best...