Word: imposts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moving mass of color, half a dozen horses still in contention coming up to the final hedges of the $50,000 Temple Gwathmey, the richest steeplechase in the world. Then, as if he were tired of company, a steel-muscled brute named Neji shouldered his all-but-impossible impost of 173 lbs., sailed over the last jump like a larking colt, sprinted down the Belmont stretch and won by seven lengths...
...mile-and-three-sixteenths Brooklyn Handicap. But the doughty businessmen who had paid the $1,250,000 tab to buy Nashua decided that they did not like the weight, refused to enter the great bay colt in the race. The man who decided on the 132-lb. impost: Frank E. ("Jimmy") Kilroe, New York State's racing secretary and handicapper...
...tongue on the issue, but City Council Candidate Frank Gold came out flatly for dogs and against leashes. "I am not afraid," said Gold boldly. At the election he was defeated, and the leash law was passed by a solid majority, 55,013 to 39,917. Last week, adding impost to injury, the Denver Health Department proposed a tax on pet food to pay for the law's enforcement. Mayor Quigg Newton quickly killed the idea, but bristling dog owners held a protest meeting to plan repeal of the leash law at the August city election...
...goes well, the Big Grey will try to do it again over a longer distance (1¼ miles) with as much or more of a weight spread in the $50,000 Memorial Day Suburban Handicap. After that, Alfred Vanderbilt can choose to race the horse under a whopping impost (possibly in the 140-lb. area) in the Brooklyn Handicap, or take him West...
...Preakness by a neck, won the Belmont by an even shorter neck. Last week the Dancer, now a full-grown four-year-old, was back again, this time going after racing's triple handicap crown (the Metropolitan, Suburban and Brooklyn). In his first handicap race, carrying a top impost of 130 Ibs., the Dancer proved once again his flair for the fast finish...