Word: longshot
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...start, held it all the way around the final turn-with Assagai straining in second place. Then, with only Me mile to go, Jockey Jean DeForge booted France's Behistoun into the lead and drew out to beat Aniline by 2¼ lengths. Behistoun was a longshot (at 16-1) and a Gaullist to boot, but that didn't mean a thing among cousins...
...longshot in the first race at Rockingham last Monday won with ease and paid $11.20. Flushed with this success, we advise putting your life savings on Dark Sun in today's tenth race. The stable has this five-year old sharpened up for a big betting coup, and the odds should be about 10-1. He can't lose...
After the first five furlongs of the 1 3/10-mi. Preakness, Tom Rolfe was nine lengths back. Isador Bieber's Flag Raiser (odds: 5-1) was straining for the lead, with Lucky Debonair and a longshot named Swift Ruler (42-1). Lucky Debonair's jockey, Willie Shoemaker, knew he was in trouble: "I was getting into him pretty good, but he wasn't giving me anything." Rounding the turn for home. Flag Raiser was in front-but there was Tom Rolfe ranging up to take the lead...
...Harvard improvers of the breed planning to attend today's opening at Suffolk Downs are advised that BOURBON BLUE looks like a promising longshot in today's featured eighth race. He's a seven-year-old cheaple, but has the speed to lead every step of the way. CHIEF MASHPEE could pay a long price in the sixth, and MACEDONIA would have to break a leg to lose in the ninth...
...real longshot sleeper in the Run for the Roses may turn out to be a 20-1 shot named Dandy K. After losing the first eight races of his lifetime, Dandy K. has begun to round to form. He won two straight, then was pitted against, Northern Dancer and lost by 16 lengths. After this humiliation he won two more, including a big upset over highly-touted Roman Brother against whom he came from dead last, 16 lengths behind, to win by a length. On April 4 Dandy K. took another crack at Northern Dancer and this time rallied...