Word: homestretch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yards dash was between Stead, Bodley and Priest. Bodley set a rattling pace for the first 220 yards and kept first place throughout. Stead was second. Time 53 1-2s. Sturgis and Endicott were the starters in the '90 440-yards dash. Endicott led until the homestretch, when Sturgis passed him, making the distance in 54 seconds. Davenport and Downs ran the '90 half-mile. Both men ran in fine form. Downs won in 2m. 4 4-5s. '89 100-yards dash brought out Merrill and Mandell. Mandell won in 10 2-5s. Stegman and Derrick started...
...enter upon the homestretch of the mid-year race : let it be hoped that nobody will be found distanced...
...several lengths over Pale Face, who was a length ahead of Papoose. Down the backstretch the horses went in the same order, with Spotted Tail lapping Redskin, the others having lost some distance. Rounding the turn, Spotted Tail overhauled Redskin, headed him and opened distance, coming down the homestretch and finishing under the whip a clear length ahead. Meanwhile Papoose overtook Pale Face, and ran a good third to finish. Time was not taken...
...acres. Distance from home plate to nearest obstruction on principal ball field, 420ft.; same, second field, 350ft. Cricket field, 400ft. square. Grade of ball field, 3 1-4 in. to 100ft. Length of driveway, 4,000ft. Length straightaway on running track, 372.5ft.; radius inside curve, 90ft.; width of homestretch, 20ft.; width of rest of track, 15ft.; depth of material, 15in., in six layers, and beaded inside and outside with tarred spruce and hemlock 6in.x1in. Length of fencing, 2,762ft.; length of water pipe, 1,580ft.; line of field, 3 dig. west of north. Money spent (approximately): Original purchase...