Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September 1953 Trainer Winfrey detected some soreness in the Dancer's left forefoot and a limp in his walk. It was a stone bruise. The Dancer was retired for the rest of the-year. Tom Fool, a fabulous four-year-old, won New York's three big handicap races (the Metropolitan, Suburban and Brooklyn). Horsemen who had hoped to see Tom Fool and Native Dancer in the same race were disappointed...
...handily and, to the surprise of no one, was assigned the highest weight for his first handicap race?the Metropolitan. A pleasantly unswervable gentleman named John Blanks Campbell, veteran of 49 years at the tracks, enjoys the "dictatorial power to estimate the talents of horses at most of the big eastern race tracks and thereupon to garland each with an amount of weight theoretically calculated to make all the horses in a handicap race cross the finish line simultaneously. The idea for the Metropolitan was that Native Dancer should carry 130** and the next closest horse?Straight Face?should carry...
...come-from-behind finishes. The Dancer lost the Kentucky Derby by a head, won the Preakness by a neck, won the Belmont by an even shorter neck. Last week the Dancer, now a full-grown four-year-old, was back again, this time going after racing's triple handicap crown (the Metropolitan, Suburban and Brooklyn). In his first handicap race, carrying a top impost of 130 Ibs., the Dancer proved once again his flair for the fast finish...
...determined to capture not only the literal meaning but the intricate minuets of La Fontaine's rhyme schemes. Two things made the task gargantuan:1) Jean de la Fontaine was one of the cleverest versifiers in all literature; 2) Miss Moore started with the seemingly fatal handicap of only three years of school French. Her first try was so faulty that it had to be thrown away. (Said her mother, who did know French: "This is so coarse, and French is so delicate.") Some of the fables Miss Moore translated ten times before she and her editor were satisfied...
...York, making a 1954 debut, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's great grey colt Native Dancer, odds-on (3-20), romped off with Belmont Park's $15,000 Commando Purse. The race was a warmup for this week's Metropolitan, first event in racing's handicap triple crown, where the Dancer will carry...