Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starting gun boomed. Thirty-four seagoing yachts jockeyed their way across the line and out of Los Angeles Harbor to the open sea. It was the start of the first postwar 2,225-mile California-to-Honolulu handicap race...
They were off in the $10,000 La Salle Handicap at Detroit's Fair Grounds. Up in the press box, jolly George Krehbiel raised his big binoculars and began telling the television audience what...
There were two hot horses in the Brooklyn Handicap last week, and if either won, Whirlaway's alltime money-winning record ($561,161) was sure to fall. Texas-born Assault, a chestnut, the swiftest thing on horseshoes in 1947, needed only $22,591 to catch up with Whirlaway. Stymie, another Texas horse -who usually does better when Assault is not around-needed even less...
...nose in the dirt. Smart Jockey Eddie Arcaro quickly pulled him together, but Assault was already twelve lengths in the ruck. The only horse behind him was Stymie, a notorious laggard whose specialty is a hair-raising burst of speed at the end. Assault was carrying the top handicap weight in the race (133 lbs.), but on the backstretch, when Arcaro decided to move, Assault began running...
...Ghost and Mrs. Muir (20th Century-Fox) seems like a bit of ectoplasm left over from Blithe Spirit, but despite that handicap does fairly well by itself. A pretty English widow (Gene Tierney) rents a house by the seashore, complete with ghost. The ghost (Rex Harrison), all that is left of a fierce-whiskered sea captain who died there, still loves the place and jealously scares off new tenants...