Word: gate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bugle. A crowd of 39.000 jamming the Belmont grounds waits expectantly as the nine horses stream around the track to the starting gate. The tote board shows that $376,243 had been wagered on the race, 65% of it on the Dancer to win, place or show...
...19¼ p.m. The starting gate opens and spills a sudden glitter of color on the track. The Dancer starts an alert fifth, almost immediately drops back to eighth...
...crowd accepts it as just the Dancer's routine. Straight Face, in front from the gate, gradually opens a lead. The great murmur of the crowd grows deeper. In the third quarter the Dancer, his head merely rising and falling to the other horses' frenetic bobbing, reaches the quarter pole in fifth place and seven lengths behind Straight Face. The crowd's sound swells into a half-angry, half-keening roar...
...Berkeley have always been under the impression that the Bay Bridge is longer than the Golden Gate Bridge, which is one mile in length...
...Berkeley, Calif.