Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Which two-year-old of 1950 is most likely to succeed as a three-year-old? This week, announcing weights for next spring's Experimental Free Handicap, Jockey Club Handicapper John B. Campbell gave his weighty opinion. At the top of Campbell's list (with 126 Ibs.) stood Pennsylvania-bred Uncle Miltie,† winner of the Champagne and Wakefield Stakes. Other top weights: Belmont Futurity Winner Battlefield and Pimlico Futurity Winner Big Stretch (each 124 Ibs.), To Market (121 Ibs.), Battle Morn...
...with the natives so that he may expiate an old sin. Even the cast of characters seems to have escaped from the rolls of an old jungle thriller: a gigantic U.S. Negro, wanted for murder, who has found a dignified life in a country where his color is no handicap; an old white adventurer who has gone native but still clings to his dream of El Dorado; the big-company man of purpose; the noble young savage...
...like many other American citizens, am suffering from protonopia, a condition which makes it impossible for me to distinguish the color red. The more common, if inaccurate, term for this is color-blindness. I have had my condition since birth and have never found it a handicap (I am a licensed automobile operator) but when I faced the new exam schedule I found it composed entirely of indistinguishable blobs of lighter and darker gray...
...their books. "I advise them to put as much as they can in their educational bank," said the University of Colorado's Dean Harry Carlson. But this was not as easy as it sounded-particularly for indifferent scholars, who found that worrying about the draft added still another handicap to their desperate pursuit of grades. An increasing number were enlisting-usually in the Navy or Coast Guard ("where you can keep clean"), or in the Air Force. Nobody was enthusiastic about it, but few wanted to be dogfaces...
...Inglewood, Calif., Horse-of-the-Year Hill Prince over three-year-old Filly-of-the-Year Next Move, by three-quarters of a length, for the $50,000 Sunset Handicap at Hollywood Park...