Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days after Kentucky Breeder Leslie Combs II paid Owner Ralph Lowe $1,000,000 for a three-fourths interest in Gallant Man (total winnings: $510,355), the four-year-old English colt went to the post in the $28,700 Sysonby Handicap at Belmont, L.I., never did get going under top weight of 134 lbs., finished fifth...
...placid and tough, ready to run anywhere, any time. He is indifferent to cross-continental flights (eight so far) that make other thoroughbreds airsick. He is at his best in races over a mile-and the longer the better. Despite his small frame, he has won eight handicap races carrying 130 Ibs. or more (neither Citation nor Nashua ever won carrying that much). Says Trainer Molter: "He hasn't even had a snotty nose since...
This year Round Table impressed railbirds by breezing home under 130 Ibs. to win Florida's mile-and-one-quarter $100,000 Gulfstream Park Handicap. His pace for the mile-and-one-eighth en route was just two-fifths of a second off the world record of 1:46.8. In his drive to top Nashua's moneymaking, Round Table is entered in this week's $100,000 Washington Park Handicap at Arlington and this month's $100,000 United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City, NJ. and the $100,000 Woodward Stakes at Belmont, L.I. Possible opponent...
...Travis Kerr's top-weighted (130 Ibs.), four-year-old Round Table made his move at the far turn, and Willie Shoemaker brought him home the winner by a comfortable 2½ lengths in the $85,200 Arlington Handicap in Illinois. First money of $54,100 gave Round Table career earnings of $1,215,114, just $73,451 behind the retired Nashua, alltime earnings champion...
Born. To Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, 54, patriarchal tycrooner, horseman, low-handicap golfer, and Cinemactress Kathy (Operation Mad Ball) Grant (formerly Olive Kathryn Grandstaff of West Columbia, Texas), 24: a son, their first child (he has four other sons by his first wife, the late Musicomedienne Dixie Lee); in Hollywood. Name: Harry Lillis III. Nickname: Tex. Weight...