Word: ladkin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when it was at its lowest ebb in the East, after the repeal of the racing law in New York State. He was Chairman of ihe Jockey Club, founder of Belmont Park (famed Long Island track), owner of many celebrated horses?Rock Sand, Norman III, Tracery, Man o' War, Ladkin. These swift beasts wore his famed colors?scarlet, maroon sleeves, black cap?to victory. His greatest regret was that he sold Man o' War to S. D. Riddle, under whose ownership he developed into the "fastest horse since Pegasus." Last fall (TIME, Oct. 6) his fleet Ladkin defeated Epinard...
...they bolted, Major August Belmont's Ladkin on the rail, then Epinard, then Wise Counsellor (Epinard's conqueror at Belmont Park on Labor Day), then Zev, Little Chief, My Own. Sweeping the turn, streaking down the backstretch, Epinard's chestnut head showed the way. Inch by inch Wise Counsellor moved up-abreast, ahead. Came Ladkin farther out, little by little; then he too was ahead. On the turn Epinard was seen to slow up, veer right, flatten out again in a dash for the outside after losing four lengths. Jockey Haynes had feared a "pocketing...
Major August Belmont, Ladkin's owner, was in receipt of $28,750-the purse for International Special No. 2. Gratified, said Major Belmont; "What can a man say ? What can a man say who has just won so great a triumph?" Said Pierre Wertheimer, owner of Epinard: "I believe my horse should have won the race." Said Jockey Haynes, whose overcautious riding turfmen blamed for the French stallion's second U. S. defeat: "It was a shame...
...bugle call, Epinard stepped daintily forth upon the cinder track, followed by his eight opponents in International Special No. 1, a race of six furlongs. Came Zev, conqueror of the English Papyrus in 1923, tossing his head, spirited. Came Ladkin, fleet racer of Maj. August Belmont. Came Wise Counsellor, Snob II, Baffling, Wilderness, Goshawk, Miss Star...
...strode out past Zev. The field looked his to run away with. Then, lo around the pack and out of it galloped Wise Counsellor. Faster and faster he sped, past Baffling, past Zev, past Epinard, past the finish, a winner by three-quarters of the length of his body. Ladkin, spurting brilliantly, was home behind the game French horse...