Word: hambletonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goshen, N.Y. they still have horses & buggies that go like the devil. Last week 25,000 city slickers and country bumpkins gathered at Goshen's Good Time park to watch nine of the classiest three-year-olds in the U.S. trot it out for the Hambletonian, richest ($40,000) and most renowned of the 25,000 harness races still held throughout the U.S. every summer...
...week that E. Roland Harriman's Florimel, winner of last year's Kentucky Futurity, was the fastest stepper in the bunch. She had stepped a mile in 2.03½. But Florimel had shown a tendency to "break" (break her trotting gait) when she got nervous, and a Hambletonian winner must beat its rivals not once but twice...
After the first heat, they kicked themselves. With 20-odd Johnston kinfolk cheering from a front-row box, the Johnston colt got hopelessly out of step. Driver Lee Smith, an oldtimer on minor-league tracks but a newcomer to the Hambletonian, failed to get a good start, finished an embarrassing sixth...
Rallying around Bill Gallon's barn, the Johnston kinfolk celebrated with mint juleps, received from their host prints of the precious photo finish that had won the hallowed Hambletonian in Owner Johnston's first...
Sharing Driver Egan's joy was Owner Charles W. Phellis, retired Du Pont bigwig, who has raised trotters for 40 years, has had four previous starters in the Hambletonian (entry fee for each starter is around $1,000). Spencer Scott brought him his first victory...