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...Counterpoint, C. V. Whitney's brilliant, brittle colt, the $59,600 Empire City Handicap; at Jamaica, N.Y. The victory made him the top money-winner ($250,525) of the year, but a cracked hoof put him-out of competition until...
...handicap is not my blindness," said 35-year-old John last week. "The real obstacle is the preconceived notions that people have about blind people. And once people are convinced, they go to the other extreme. There's no middle ground about blind people. You're either the tin-cup variety or you're a genius...
...year-old, the colt raced only twice, earning a measly $700. This year, since running a dull eleventh in the Kentucky Derby, he has turned into the runningest three-year-old in the U.S. He broke the track record at Belmont to win the Peter Pan Handicap, captured the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes, bruised a foot so badly he was laid up for two months, then came back to win the Lawrence Realization and the two-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup, in which he upset odds-on four-year-old Hill Prince...
...handicap of jet aircraft engines is the tedious, time-wasting process of starting them. It takes about five minutes for a crew of three in a jeep rigged with ten storage batteries for extra electric power to rev an engine up to starting speed. If a jet plane lands on a field that lacks the starting equipment, it has to stay there...
Cross country coach Jaakko Mikkola hasn't yet seen his team in action but despite this handicap, the harriers are already on their way to a successful season. Bill McCurdy has been acting head coach since Mikkola was taken to the hospital for an emergency operation a week before the first meet. Even in Mikkola's absence, the team has finished second to Rhode Island in its opening quadrangular meet, and last week defeated Boston University and Brown in Providence...