Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China only in Korea. MacArthur, unable to accept the logic of fighting a war he could not win, launched a fresh barrage of dissent. He loosed a flood of announcements, interviews, and answers to magazine queries, complaining of the enemy's "privileged sanctuary," calling such limitations "an enormous handicap without precedent in military history," declaring that "never before has the patience of man been more sorely tried...
...tough week for the experts, who thought they had the Kentucky Derby winner all doped out. When ten of the nation's best three-year-olds paraded to the post in New York's Experimental Free Handicap No. 2, the horseplayers, agreeing with the experts, made Joseph J. Colando's blaze-faced bay colt Uncle Miltie an overwhelming odds-on (7-20) choice to come galloping home with the $18,500 purse...
Another Derby candidate, Mrs. Nora Mikell's Repetoire, winner of Experimental Free Handicap No. 1, stayed well up on the list of top three-year-old colts by winning the $23,025 Chesapeake Stakes at Laurel race track. Repetoire, carrying a top-weighted 119 Ibs., ran the mile-and-a-sixteenth...
...Mateo, Calif., Special Touch, the $15,000-added Alameda Handicap. Calumet Farm's favored Coaltown, making his third comeback start, finished ninth...
Jamaica opens Monday with the Paumonock Handicap as the inaugural feature. First post time in 1:15 p.m. daily...