Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the beautiful big red animal called Phar Lap (Lightning) died last April in California, the U. S. was cheated of what probably would have been its greatest horse racing year since Man o' War won 20 out of 21 starts in 1919 and 1920. Of the 37 races Phar Lap won, only one-the Agua Caliente Handicap last March-was away from home. But last week on Futurity Day at Belmont Park, L. I., Easterners rubbed their eyes and stared at a big red figure standing in the paddock.* It was Phar Lap. He had not returned...
Even as a carcass Phar Lap showed why he had won so many races. He stood 16 hands, 3¾ in.; taller by 2⅛ in. than Man o' War. His girth behind the shoulders was 81 in. against Man o' War's 71¾ in. Alive, Phar Lap weighed approximately 1,200 lb.; Man o' War, 1,160 Ib. Other measurements: front leg from knee, 20 in.; hind leg from hock, 25 in.; length of neck, 36 in.; length of body...
...first lap, Miss England III, going 88.685 m. p. h., opened up over a mile lead. Miss America X, riding with her nose high in the rough water, gained half a mile in the second lap, then dropped back with her motors sputtering in the third. The fourth time around the course, Wood opened his throttles wide. Spectators in 30 airplanes over the race saw the two arrows of spray on the water come closer together. Then Wood shot ahead, in an uproar of cheers and boat whistles. Miss England III, her engines sputtering now, slowed down miserably...
...about to crash into treetops at the north end of the field. Scoffed Doolittle afterward: "I was nowhere near them. I must have been at least four feet over them." Once again he rocketed back & forth, this time endangered by splashing oil which smeared his windhood. His fastest lap was 309 m.p.h. Said he: "I left five miles more in her for 'Russ' Boardman. He can shoot the record up to more than...
...glimpse of "Pop" Cleveland greeting each woman pilot in the Cord Cup Race with an enormous hug & kiss. Fifty-nine planes had set out from Washington and Los Angeles a week earlier, their paths converging at Bartlesville, Okla. into a home stretch to Cleveland. As it was scored by lap-points, everyone knew when the racers reached Cincinnati that Roy Hunt of Oklahoma would win in his slow Great Lakes Trainer...