Word: dauber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whitney-bred, Du Pont-owned Dauber, a grandson of famed Man o' War, was a thoroughly acceptable winner of last week's $69,000 Preakness Stakes, the toniest and richest race for three-year-old thoroughbreds this year. Purchased at the dispersal sale of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's famed stable last November, Dauber had not won a stake race this year for his new owner, William du Pont Jr., horsiest member of the Wilmington clan...
...make-believe setting of California's Santa Anita Park, Dauber had finished second to Stagehand in the $60,000 Santa Anita Derby. In the carnival surroundings at Churchill Downs last fortnight, he had finished second to Lawrin in the $57,000 Kentucky Derby. But last week, in the patrician atmosphere of Maryland's old Pimlico, where the spectators' blood lines are almost as genteel as the horses', Dauber apparently felt at home...
Since Lawrin's owner had not seen fit to nominate him for the Preakness (for which nominations closed a month ago) and since Stagehand was not in condition to run, Dauber was a 3-to-2 favorite-chiefly because of his magnificent stretch run in the Kentucky Derby. Through the rain and mist, 25,000 dripping spectators watched Dauber start unostentatiously, as a well-mannered Whitney colt would be expected to do. But going into the backstretch, Dauber began to make a spectacle of himself-not in front, but trailing behind (in next to last place in the field...
Runner-up was Cravat, a former stablemate of Dauber's in the Whitney string, who had been 20 lengths behind the leaders at the half-mile post, had made an equally astonishing stretch finish. Pace-setting Menow was third, Can't Wait fourth...
...Dauber's victory was worth $51,875 and brought his 1938 winnings to $69,175. second only to those,of Stagehand. Owner Du Pont already had a neat profit on the chestnut colt he bought from Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney...