Word: grass
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...weight around in New York, the Louisiana Derby of March 22 was taken by a lightly regarded Master Derby. For horse racing myopics who are chauvinist about Eastern racing, that feat came into focus last week, when Master Derby trudged his way through the slop to win the Blue Grass Stakes, his fifth consecutive victory and an important Derby prep...
Master Derby's mud-running heroics last week also eclipsed the valiant efforts of a horse named Harvard Man, who left the gate in the Blue Grass as a 35-1 long shot and finished eighth in the field of nine. Harvard Man, who finished second to Foolish Pleasure in the Champagne Stakes last year, has been one of the biggest disappointments of this racing season, to say the least...
...final point of interest in the Blue Grass was the performance, or lack of it, by a West Coast invader named Avatar. Jockey Willie Shoemaker says that the horse had his head down in the starting gate and got away poorly, which should explain his lack of punch...
...suppose that if you consider Master Derby then you have to make note of Honey Mark, who closed strongly down the stretch of the Blue Grass but ran out of running room. Add an eighth of a mile, and the horse could be an upsetter, but it's doubtful...
Newcombe's two victories over Connors came on grass, a fast surface suited to his serve-and-volley power game. The Las Vegas match will be on a slower synthetic surface, but Newcombe seems too strong to be seriously handicapped by a dull court. When he is pent up, Newcombe lets go with the toughest serve in tennis, and no one has a more murderous volley...