Word: galloped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee's own record as favoring the idea of Federal charters. But coming on top of the Securities Act. the Stock Exchange control law and other New Deal manifestations of Government-over-Business, talk of national incorporation seemed to be a case of whipping the horse at full gallop...
...deathbed in a Long Island hospital, but neither Mrs. Sloane nor the physicians she sent to tend him realized it when the Spring meeting of the Westchester Racing Association opened at flowery Belmont Park four days later.* Flecked by tragedy, Mrs. Sloane's colors continued their phenomenal gallop from prize to prize. In the 41st running of the Toboggan Handicap, Belmont's opener, Mrs. Sloane's favorite horse, Okapi, was entered. Mack Garner was up -"Colonel" Mack Garner since he had won the Kentucky Derby on Cavalcade two weeks before. Riding high on Brookmeade's luck...
...whom he had ridden his first victory of the year at Havana last January. Away fast from the barrier, Jockey Westrope lifted Out Bound into the lead, coaxed him along in a squeaky treble, won by five lengths. Grinning broadly at the crowd's cheers, Jockey Westrope mounted Gallop Along for the fifth race, booted him in for No. 301. He finished the year with 302, soon afterward headed for Miami to ride at Tropical Park, Coral Gables...
...Grand Circuit, a publicity agent was high-pressuring newspaper interest in trotting racing. Last week 30,000 trotting fans crowded Goshen's green valley, its dusty Main Street. Eastern newspapers sent their crack sports writers to cover it. A trotting horse is trained not to break into a gallop. Pulling the little low-hung sulky with the driver perched nearly under his tail, he must not stretch out to pull himself along, must drive his legs rhythmically down and back. He is rarely above or below form, cannot win on pure gameness. If he is fastest by the clock...
...second heat Mary Reynolds confidently got away in the lead. At the first turn, trotting in the clear by a length, she suddenly saw the shadow of the rail across the inside of the track. When she broke nervously into a gallop and was taken to the outside, the leaders rushed past her. Driver Ben White got her back into stride, then set out after the, field, caught it on the second stretch. Tired by a blistering quarter-mile after her break, Mary Reynolds led Brown Berry to the last turn, when a third horse, Hollyrood Portia, left the ruck...