Word: half-length
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...length lead. Everyone expected that to be it. Jockey Braulio Baeza eased up, and suddenly from dead last, there came Willie Shoemaker on Abe's Hope. The horses were neck and neck at the top of the stretch-then Abe's Hope drew out to a half-length lead. Baeza went to the whip, and Graustark came on hard. But not hard enough. Abe's Hope won by a nose...
...races against the Crimson Saturday, M.I.T. apparently decided to make its big push at the half-mile-to-go mark. In the junior varsity race, M.I.T. had a half-length lead at this point and protected it for the rest of the distance...
While Columbia settled to a 44, Harvard lowered their stroke to a 26, where they remained for the body of the race. The Lions couldn't maintain their cadence, eventually sagging to a 40, and at the halfway marker, the Crimson held a half-length lead...
Harvard's varsity crew redeemed its poor showing at Henley Yesterday with a stirring half-length triumph over some of the best ws in the world in Switzerland's Lucerne Regatta...
...this regatta, even Vesper wasn't good enough to go all the way. Germany's Ratzeburg crew, second to Vesper by a few feet in the Olympic, got its revenge with a half-length victory in the finals. Ratzeburg's 6:16 for the mile and- five-sixteenths broke by two seconds the course record that Vesper had set in beating the Harvard crew on Thursday...