Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race and gets deathly sick. The others nodded understandingly. All of them got sick too, some before a race and some afterwards. It was the terrible "keying up" process that track champions must go through. Since it helps them win, most of them consider it a blessing, not a handicap...
...almost kicks the slats out of his stall. Rather than burn up the energy in morning workouts, Trainer Jimmy Jones decided last week that it was more profitable to give Citation his work in the afternoon. Jones entered the wonder horse in the $50,000 Stars & Stripes handicap at Arlington Park, Ill., his first race since winning the triple crown (TIME, June 21). It was only Citation's third race against older horses, easily the toughest handicap field he had ever faced. He was giving away chunks of weight to seven of the other eight horses. And no three...
Peter Pan Handicap (Sat. 3:45 p.m., CBS and CBS Television...
According to Sandy Calhoun, who held a respectable one-goal handicap from the American Polo Association before the war as a result of his play at Manila, these practice facilities are all that Harvard needs to regain its former prominent position among Eastern college polo teams...
...Jamaica, last year's Preakness winner, Faultless, carried Calumet's devil-red and blue silks home by a nose in the Gallant Fox Handicap ($60,300). The horse he beat was his stablemate, Fervent (second money: $15,000). Calumet Farm's receipts...