Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took up the game just four years ago, he has a fine swing. His tee shots, though not long, are straight. As far as three-putting, this happens to almost all Europeans who play the Sotogrande course for the first time because the fast bent-grass greens that Trent Jones built are new and unknown in Spain. I can vouch for the accuracy of these statements because it was I who played with General Franco that...
...such lip. Two months ago, Buckpasser cracked his right front hoof and had to be scratched. As sometimes happens with fillies, Moccasin failed to improve; she will not run. That left all the roses to Graustark-or so it seemed until last week's $29,500 Blue Grass Stakes...
...course, Graustark had never run more than seven furlongs. So his Darby Dan Farm owners and Trainer Loyd Gentry decided to give him his final prep over the nine furlongs (1½ miles) of the Blue Grass Stakes, just one furlong short of the Derby distance. Though he had a slight infection in his left front hoof, the mere mention of his name was enough to reduce the field to two other horses: Rehabilitate, an also-runner, and Abe's Hope, a hard-luck colt who won the Florida Derby last month only to have the victory wiped...
...were thinking of staying out of it, decided to ship their colts to Churchill Downs after all. It looked as if it would be a large field "of 16 or 18," said a Derby spokesman. And when news came that Graustark's infection was worse following the Blue Grass, the early odds on him shifted from...
...issues looked less clear-cut to grass-roots-sniffing committeemen. For one thing, the Great Society legislation of 1965 loses much of its immediacy as a campaign pitch for 1966. The overriding popular concern, delegates made clear, is the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam. Michigan's Neil Staebler spoke for many of the 110 National Committee members when he said...