Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lead, just as expected. Down the backstretch he kept in front. But it was no runaway, like the Derby. Gilded Knight was on his heels, stride for stride. Coming into the homestretch, Challedon, who had been trailing the leaders, flew past them in a splatter of mud, crossed the finish line a length and a half-in front of Gilded Knight. Mighty Johnstown, with mud in his eye, strolled in next to last, almost ear to ear with last-place Ciencia, only filly in the race...
...Johnstown won only seven of twelve races. Because Johnstown ate too fast and often made himself ill, his trainer invented a sievelike device to feed him oats slowly. Johnstown swiftly improved. This spring, in three starts, no rival could get within six lengths of his heels at the finish line. Last week, Owner Woodward saw Johnstown join one of the Derby's smallest fields as one of the shortest favorites in the history of the race...
Everyone applauded. Then the Conference resumed its work, which it had agreed to speed up. The delegates had voted themselves a modest, Methodist $4 per day expense money, but even that, they discovered, would exhaust their Conference treasury by May 10. Accordingly, they resolved to finish by then. Week's work...
...thundered through the lush valley. Blockade was in the lead, Coq Bruyere far behind. Fencing perfectly and lightning fast on the flat, Blockade clung to his lead. Not until the 18th jump did Coq Bruyere challenge. They took the last fence neck & neck. Then, in as exciting a stretch finish as is seen in many a six-furlong sprint on the flat, Blockade, with Farm Boy John Colwill up, just nosed out his rival to win his second Maryland Hunt...
Last Saturday the Cornell crew rowed to a victory over Syracuse and M.I.T. The race was run over a short course and would not mean a great deal one way or the other, except that M.I.T. was left six lengths behind at the finish Line. The Harvard crew only registered six lengths itself against Technology...