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Similarly situated is On The Sly, whose big move in the Wood carried him from last place to second in the stretch, five lengths behind Bold Forbes. The added distance tomorrow (the Derby is one furlong longer than the Wood) figures to help, but exactly how much is debatable...
Claudette Furlong, the leader of Women United for Action, announces, "We're ready to lay ourselves on the line, as we have shown today..." The crowd loves...
...before his muscles are in shape to gallop two miles. He has to gallop two slow miles a day for a long time before he is in shape to do any running. He has to run slow before he is ready to run fast, and short distances like a furlong or two before he is ready to run farther...
...nine-year-olds: "Complete the sentence with the words that make the most sense: The boy wanted (a) a new ball (b) under dinner (c) rode his bike (d) to the circus (e) stopped raining (f) I don't know." Some 17 % missed it. Sniffed Dr. William Furlong of the National Reading Center: "The questions may tell us more about the testers' expectations than the kids' ability to read...
Charlie offered his answer in 1971. After Ack Ack finished second in a six-furlong sprint at Santa Anita, he ran longer and stronger with each succeeding race. He won the Santa Anita Derby by 1½ lengths, the Hollywood Express by three, the American Handicap by four. All told, Ack Ack won seven of eight starts and a total of $393,000 in the year. Explaining that "he didn't have anything more to prove," Whittingham and Ack Ack's new owners, Oilman E.E. ("Buddy") Fogelson and his wife, Actress Greer Garson, decided to retire their prize...