Word: handicap
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...muddled along with no official formula for comparing its turf champions. Last month in Lexington, Ky., breeders of the Thoroughbred Club of America decided to do something about it. They agreed on a plan to standardize rankings of the nation's top-flighters with a system of handicap weights based on performances at a mile-and-a-quarter. It was to be called the Yardstick...
...Whipple advised his fellow surgeons to avoid temper tantrums and "excessive showmanship." Said he: "Too often the ability of a surgeon is compromised by his temper exposed in the operating room, and he becomes his own worst handicap . . . His prayer should be, 'Give me skill with humility, and prevent me from becoming a prima donna...
...Hialeah, Calumet Farm's Coaltown waltzed home ahead of the pack to present Owner Warren Wright with his fourth Widener Handicap...
...Vulcan's Forge, a horse recently sold by Millionaire Sportsman C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney for $80,000, got it all back in one lump for his new owner, I. J. Collins of Lancaster, Ohio, by winning the world's richest race-the Santa Anita Handicap (value to the winner...
...House on 92nd Street), might have been a real humdinger in the same tradition. Unfortunately, it rarely gets much nearer to a real whale than a few tons of refrigerated blubber and some background footage of Pacific whales lazing about off the coast of Southern California. To offset this handicap, canny Skipper Hathaway has concentrated on character study, backed by careful casting and straightforward camera work...