Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golden, all right. A sudden summer shower had turned the track at Chicago's Arlington Park slow and sloppy-but that did not bother him a bit. Neither did the fact that he had to concede up to 23 Ibs. to eleven of the best handicap horses in the Midwest. The big bay made a shambles of the $114,750 Washington Handicap two Saturdays ago. Leaping in front at the start, he stayed there all the way-fighting off four separate challenges, drawing out by two lengths at the wire. "A lot of horses found out they could catch...
...took Gun Bow just three trips to the track to win back his purchase price. A victory in the San Fernando Stakes at Santa Anita last January was worth $26,125; the C. H. Strub Stakes brought in $87,500 more and the San Antonio Handicap added another $36,200. But that was just the beginning. So far this year, Gun Bow has accounted for seven major stakes and swelled his bankroll...
...World War II years he dutifully trod water in a routine variety of posts. He got married, fathered a daughter, Patricia, and a son, Grant, who is now a Navy lieutenant at the Navy Postgraduate School at Monterey, and polished his golf game to a ten-handicap shine. In mid-1942 he got a wartime command aboard a minesweeper, picked up a commendation for combat action off Casablanca, then served nearly two years on the Boyd in the Pacific. His older brother, Thomas, was also a Navyman in the war; he died in the Pacific when his submarine, Pickerel...
...redeem himself in the eyes of dog fanciers, gently lifting one of his beagles by the ears and explaining to newsmen that it didn't hurt at all. Next, he went after the duffers' vote, replying to a reporter who asked him what his golf handicap was: "I don't have any handicap-I'm all handicap...
Active Member. The Queen calls the Prince "Bernilo," and he calls her "Julie." He is as slim and debonair as she is shy and plump. At 52, he has long since overcome the handicap of being German by birth, is one of the busiest men in the kingdom, sits as an active member of the boards of Royal Fokker Aircraft, Royal Netherlands steelworks and KLM (in the interest of fairness, he serves only on the board of companies that have no Dutch competitors). Not only is he his nation's most effective representative abroad, but he also provides...