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...Count, Eddie Arcaro up, the $118,500 Belmont Stakes; in New York. Rated well by heady Eddie, longshot (13-1) One Count upset favored (1-2) Blue Man by 2½ lengths in 2:30.2, two full seconds off the stake record first set by One Count's sire, Count Fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, though the H.T.A. tries to prohibit betting after the first 15 minutes of trailing, the bookies continued intoning odds and grabbing money. The H.T.A.'s concern is understandable. In the past, nobblers (English version of U.S. fixers) have been known to ambush a favorite, or give a longshot an autoborne boost along the trail. Other nobblers, working hand in glove with bookies, have been jailed for relaying information, via walkie-talkie radio, from observation points along the trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poor Man's Fox Hunt | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...turn, longshot (18-1) Know-itall made his bid and came within a head of the leader. Bold let loose again, left the field flatfooted, finished going away, a full seven lengths ahead of C. V. Whitney's Counterpoint (25-1). Bold's time for the mile-and-three-sixteenths: 1:56 2/5, second fastest in Preakness history (after Capot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Excuses Needed | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...clubmate, Stewart Ray, who let Wilt pass him, sprinted against Gehrmann. Said Wilt: "Don's still the better miler." ¶In Philadelphia, the Columbia University basketball team over Pennsylvania, 63-58, for the Ivy League title and unbeaten Columbia's 21st victory. ¶In Arcadia, Calif., longshot (10-1) Moonrush, the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, by a neck over Next Move. ¶In Hialeah, Fla., Yildiz, the $50,000 Flamingo Stakes for up & coming three-year-olds, by a neck over Timely Reward. ¶In Grand Junction, Tenn., Paladin, a white and liver pointer, the National Bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...thought Wisconsin Boy had a chance in Chicago's rich ($74,975) Arlington Futurity was Owner W. M. Peavey, a paper-mill operator from Ladysmith, Wis. His Wisconsin Boy romped home, paying $38 for $2. At Detroit, a longshot named Our Request ($23.60) galloped off with the Rose Leaves Stakes. In the Betsy Ross Stakes at Boston's Suffolk Downs, Growing Up ($30.20) surprised the connoisseurs. Colonel Mike, winner of the Lamplighter Handicap at Monmouth Park (N.J.), paid $21.60. In New York, there was a slight delay while the judges examined the photograph after the $58,400 Butler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Longshot Parade | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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