Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There she squirmed, squinted at her nurses, swallowed milk through an eyedropper. Her heart beat regularly, and when she cried it bounced up & down on her chest like a tiny red rubber ball. Dr. Jesus Celius of the University of Santo Tomas refused to consider an operation to place her...
For the 14th running of the Hambletonian (for three-year-old trotters), 40,000 harness-racing enthusiasts gathered last week in the tiny village of Goshen, N. Y. It was the year's muggiest day. But the sweltering crowd-a hodge-podge of city slickers and country bumpkins-jostling...
For a century harness races have been started by a unique method called scoring: horses parade up the track in double file, turn and trot (or pace) down to the starting line in their lot-drawn post positions. Sometimes ten or 15 scores are required before the starter considers that...
In the preliminary races on last week's Hambletonian Day card, the horses were sent off by a new-fangled starting gate: ropes hanging down from a wire drawn high over the starting line. Drivers were permitted 15 seconds (tolled off by a phonograph record) to jockey for position...
Like most of his big-time colleagues, Doc Parshall operates a public training stable, takes on horses at $100 a month (this year he has 28). Unlike jockeys in Thoroughbred racing, Standardbred drivers have their own racing colors. Doc Parshall's red-white-&-blue silks were handed down to...