Word: lawrin
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Admiral and Seabiscuit, two of the seven entries in the $50,000 added Massachusetts Handicap. Three thousand miles away, in brand-new Hollywood Park at Inglewood, 50,000 Californians gathered to watch a highly touted race, for a $50,000 purse, between Herbert M. Woolf's Lawrin (Kentucky Derby winner) and William du Font's Dauber (Preakness winner) to settle the "American three-year-old championship...
Three thousand miles away, the California racing fans saw a less exciting race but made some profit. Lawrin, so overwhelming a favorite in the field of three that there was a minus pool in the parimutuels for the first time in the history of California racing**, won as he pleased...
Talk turned to a meeting between the two three-year-olds, Lawrin and Menow. But U. S. racing fans, apparently unable or unwilling to understand the fragility of thoroughbreds, were openly disgusted with match races...
...wagered on the race, $130,000 was on Lawrin. The return was $2.20 for $2, the legal minimum of 10? on the dollar...
Outstanding races of the 33-day meet will be the $50,000 Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap (for three-year-olds and up), and a special $50,000 race between Herbert M. Woolf's Lawrin, Kentucky Derby winner, and William du Pont's Dauber, Preakness winner, for the "three-year-old championship" of the year. Missing from Hollywood Park's stalls last week were Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit and Maxwell Howard's Stagehand, the two outstanding California performers last winter, who were both going to Suffolk Downs instead for next fortnight...