Word: hoist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exciting thing about the Kentucky Derby this year is that no one really has the faintest idea about who is going to win. Ever since Hoist the Flag got injured and faded from the Derby picture, every owner and trainer from here to Zanzibar has fancied that he has the horse that can run a mile and a quarter faster than the rest on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs...
This year, at the age of three, Hoist The Flag has run twice. He beat the best horses in Maryland by 15 lengths. Then he beat the best horses in America by seven lengths eased up. Hoist The Flag will run two more times in New York before heading for Kentucky. He should romp both times...
...Hoist The Flag has never been beaten to the finish wire. Last year at two-years-old he won three of four races. In the Champagne he was disqualified for bumping other horses although he won by four easy lengths. It was one of the most ill-considered decisions ever seen in racing, and the jockey that day, Jean Cruget, has confessed to crying himself to sleep that darkest of nights...
Professional horsemen have a high opinion of the animal. His jockey said. "I don't think he'll ever get beat unless he falls down." Reggie Cornell, trainer of the Calumet Farms horses, called Hoist The Flag a "super-horse," "the best since Count Fleet," and racing columnist Charles Hatton who has seen 50 years of horse racing claims that many like this horse better than the immortal Man O' War, Hatton of course, stands by the old timer Man O' War, but concedes that Hoist The Flag's rivals have no chance to beat him unless they push...
...really great horse surfaces about once every generation, and it looks as though Hoist The Flag is unbeatable. Go out of your way to see him and bet without fear of losing. The spectacle will be worth it. There may never be another like...