Word: hooping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...IRON HOOP (268 pp.)-Cons/crn-tine FitzGibbon-Knopf...
...visit to Lexington, Ky., Hooper met ex-Jockey Ivan Parke (the nation's leading rider in 1923-24) and decided to buy some thoroughbreds for Parke to train. The first one he bought, a $10,200 yearling which he named Hoop Jr., won the Kentucky Derby in 1945. It was a plum that many a sportsman had spent years and millions of dollars trying to pluck. Now Lucky Hooper's Olympia, a chunky bay three-year-old with a white face and a pink nose, is the red-hot favorite for the 75th running of the Derby...
While Russian troops were parading through Red Square in Moscow yesterday, their sympathizers halfway around the world had already completed their May Day festivities. Wellosley College girls, in the most flagrant example of eastern college radicalism over displayed, ran their hoop race on the day before the sinister first...
Some fanciers of the thoroughbred fresh prefer the Derby (or the Darby, depending on your headsize). Others go for the Preakness. But to that elite Cambridge coterie of followers of those highstrung animals all other races fade into obscurity at the mere mention of the Wellesley Hoop Race...
Keeping a rolling hoop on course, incidentally, requires considerable technical competence, and long weeks of practic usually go into the making of an early-husband winner...