Word: furlong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke well from the starting tapes but immediately slowed to a walk as both jockeys tried to follow their instructions. A starter's assistant cracked his whip but could not even raise a canter. It took Ridge Wood and Courier 1 min. 24 sec. to stroll the first furlong (in that time a really good horse, doing his best, can run seven furlongs...
...Pimlico last week, when Jockey Atkinson mounted Capot again for the $75,000 Preakness, the track was lightning fast as the nine horses shot from the starting gate. Noble Impulse, the pacemaker, chopped a second off the track record for the half-mile, 2 4/5 seconds off the seven-furlong mark (with a sizzling 1:23 1/5). In the stretch, Slasher Atkinson went to the whip and drove into the lead. Atkinson no longer had to worry about groggy Noble Impulse, but Eddie Arcaro, aboard Palestinian, had slipped through a hole on the bend. For the last 100 yards...
Shortly after his victory over the quarter-horse in Florida, Olympia was loaded onto an airplane for California. Flashing to the front in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Felipe Stakes, Olympia was still there at the end of the seven-furlong race. But in the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby, at a mile and an eighth, he weakened in the stretch and finished second to Old Rockport, an unsung outsider. Flown back to Florida, Olympia won the $50,000 Flamingo Stakes (at a mile and an eighth), then headed for New York. A rugged, unemotional colt, Olympia seemed...
That is why before this morning's dawn, much before the guys and dolls, who, will eventually head for Suffolk Downs this afternoon, are even awake, a small band of the faithful will head out on the Wellesley-Newton line to witness the Waban Futility, a two furlong free for all for maritally minded maidens...
...Nugont, Rutgers sophomore, cracked the EISL, 50-yard freestyle record in 28.1 seconds, after tying it in the afternoon semi-finals. Girdes, who captured the furlong freestyle for the third straight year, was clocked at 2:11.2 to He an 11-year-old EISL mark...