Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Kee insists that his pupils follow a rigorous training routine which includes running seven miles a day, racing frequently and climbing mountains to develop wind. He thought he knew why his boys had beaten the best marathoners in the U.S. Said Coach Kee: "The automobile is the biggest handicap for American runners...
When three-year-old Hill Prince, top-flight Kentucky Derby hopeful, ran away with the six-furlong Experimental Free Handicap No. 1 at Jamaica a fortnight ago (TIME, April 17), a lot of people besides his jockey, Eddie Arcaro, were impressed. Last week the customers made him a 1-to-2 favorite in the second Experimental at a mile and a sixteenth. A victory at that distance would be proof that Hill Prince was something more than just a fine sprinter. Proof was deferred. Moving up at the five-sixteenths pole, Hill Prince scraped the rail, lost his stride, found...
...Jamaica race track last week, Eddie got his answer. The day was drab, chilly, drizzly; the track was sloppy, and only 19,834 fans had turned out to watch the Experimental Free Handicap No. 1, first of the Eastern trials building up to the Derby climax May 6. The race was only six furlongs, and Owner Chenery fretted about Hill Prince's slow starts and his 124-lb. impost. His concern seemed justified when, despite Arcaro's quick whip, Hill Prince was a poor next-to-last at the half-mile post; it seemed improbable that...
...vacation in Rio, Jane rehearses it so convincingly in a deck chair that fellow passengers accept her as the character, who is on the way to unwed motherhood. Coffee Tycoon Barry Sullivan falls under suspicion as the man who did her wrong and is thus under some handicap in wooing Jane's glamorous mother...
Feature attraction on the "off" track is the Inaugural Handicap ($2,500) with New England's adroitest pick-pockets running second best. The three men with the crystal balls at the CRIMSON see 'em this...