Word: mioland
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Preakness and Belmont Stakes), Ethel Mars's Gallahadion (who outran Big Bim to win the Kentucky Derby), Charles T. Fisher's Sirocco (who beat Bimelech by ten lengths in the Arlington Classic). But it rained, Big Bim was scratched and Charles S. Howard's Mioland, pride of the West Coast, made the other two look like plough horses. Splashing lickety-split through the mud, Mioland led all the way, finished three lengths in front of Sirocco, left 35,000 fans shaking their heads in bewilderment...
...50th running of the Preakness, Big Bim had redeemed himself, and his ailing, 80-year-old owner sat in his box with tears in his eyes. Leading from start to finish, he floated away from his rivals, finished two lengths ahead of Charles S. Howard's Mioland, three ahead of Ethel Mars's Gallahadion, the upstart who had humbled him in the Derby...
...bookmakers stopped taking bets on Big Bim, horse players turned their attention to his dwarfed rivals: Arnold Hanger's Dit (winner of last week's Wood Memorial), William L. Brann's Pictor (who romped off with the Chesapeake Stakes fortnight ago), Charles S. Howard's Mioland (pride of the West Coast), Tony Pelleteri's Andy K. (Mr. Big's chief rival last year). They kept their fingers crossed, remembering well that Colonel Bradley's last winter-book favorite (Blue Larkspur in 1929) came in fourth...