Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physicians she sent to tend him realized it when the Spring meeting of the Westchester Racing Association opened at flowery Belmont Park four days later.* Flecked by tragedy, Mrs. Sloane's colors continued their phenomenal gallop from prize to prize. In the 41st running of the Toboggan Handicap, Belmont's opener, Mrs. Sloane's favorite horse, Okapi, was entered. Mack Garner was up -"Colonel" Mack Garner since he had won the Kentucky Derby on Cavalcade two weeks before. Riding high on Brookmeade's luck, Garner, a comparative dodderer among jockeys, at 34 was having the best...
Last week Colonel Bradley, an erect old gentleman with a tall hard collar and high black shoes, was already on hand at Churchill Downs to inspect his horses and, incidentally, to watch two of them. Barn Swallow and Tick On, come in second and third in the Clark Handicap, first day's feature at the track and a race as old as the Derby...
This kind of qualification is, under the present circumstances, not a qualification at all. It is a handicap. This is true without regard to the personal qualities of these individuals. Neither in personnel nor in principles will the old Republican Party fully satisfy the country's major need. That need is for a "new Republican" party which shall provide a rallying place for all--whether Republicans, Democrats, Independents or what not--who believe in preserving individual liberty, the rights of the states, and the other principles and traditions which in the past have been supported by all parties and which...
...employ a clerk to register bets, a cashier to pay winners, a runner to carry wagers from the clubhouse. To belong to the betting ring was expected to cost about $90 a day. Total bets on the opening day, in which the feature race was the Paumonok Handicap which Sgt. Byrne won at odds of 3-to-1, amounted to $500,000. Estimated revenue to the State at the end of the racing season in New York State...
Adding two more titles to that of the broad jump, which he captured Saturday, Milton Green won both the hurdle races of the University Handicap Meet yesterday afternoon. In the 110 high hurdles he outran Jack and Dick Hayes to come in in 15 3-5 sec. The time of 26 1-5 sec. brought him victory over Dave Crawford and Dick Hayes in the 200 low hurdles...