Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eleven starters competed for the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. At 4 o'clock on a summery afternoon the bugle blew and 50,000 eyes turned to the gate from the paddock to watch the procession up the track. At the starting post Harry F. Sinclair's Mad Play, the favorite, Sande up, drew inside position. Up shot the barrier with a deafening roar from the stands as the horses simultaneously broke to a splendid start. Mad Play gained an immediate lead by saving ground in rounding the first turn. Hard pressed for the whole 1⅛ miles...
...high point in Mr. Chaloner's contacts with the spirit world came when he respectfully called upon "Mister Shakespeare," who obligingly responded (via Mr. Chaloner's pencil), stated he wished to refute the prevailing deplorable impression that he had meant Hamlet to be mad, and just to prove it, he had written two new scenes. Mr. Chaloner then read them, announced sternly that "Mister Shakespeare's" spirit had promised they should some day be produced on Broadway. When that happens, no one will recognize Hamlet. Ophelia will no longer be mad. "Mister Shakespeare" said he only made Ophelia mad...
...favorites before the race were: for the East, Bracadale and Mad Play, owned by Harry F. Sinclair of Manhattan; for the West, Black Gold, owned by Mrs. R. M. Hoots, an Indian woman of Tulsa, and Chilhowee. The entries of Harry Payne Whitney were also looked on with favor by Easterners. They were Transmute and Klondyke. Neither of these did well...
...English horse Papyrus last October, kept Bracadale at a fast pace all the way around the track. He was always in the lead for the first mile. It is possible that he intended to break the spirit of the other horses and clear the way for Bracadale's stablemate, Mad Play, ridden by a well-known jockey, Laverne Fator...
Rebellion, intrigue, mad dashings...