Word: maiben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little brown three-year old, William Ziegler's Espino. The bookies had Crusader at 4 to 5; Mars, they thought, was out of the running, and any poor fool who had a dollar to put on Espino could get ten back if that unruly horse was first. Maiben, up on Crusader, let an inch of rein slip through his hands; the huge horse lunged forward; Mars, his courage broken, slipped behind; only Espino hung on. Inch by inch, his jockey scissoring like a swimming frog, Espino crept up, passed Crusader, won the $26,100 Lawrence Realization...
...hailed as the year's best colt. Ladkin's time, 1.49 4-5 for the mile-and-an-eighth, was but 4/5 of a second outside of Grey Lag's course record, set last year under identical weight (123 Ibs.). Moreover, it was said that Jockey Maiben pulled Ladkin up through the last sixteenth...
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