Word: mucho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shut Outs and their kind- They get the headlines and the fame- And that I do not mind; But Mucho Gusto gets my vote
...railbirds, thumbing their racing forms this winter, will look in vain for Mucho Gusto, a name that has brought "much pleasure" to millions of them. After ten years of campaigning, the grand old trouper, fondly known as Gus the Bus, has retired to the Kentucky farm of his owner, Mrs. Kirby Ramsey...
...Mucho Gusto was no Whirlaway. But he will long be remembered as one of the truly remarkable thoroughbreds of the U.S. turf. Son of a castoff mare named Sweetheart Time and a stallion that had been sold without pedigree at the Lexington stockyards, he was reared in a small grassless paddock behind the Latonia race track. His owner, the track superintendent, sent him out to earn his oats in cheap claiming races.* The biggest purse he ever won was $5,000. Nevertheless, when his name was finally scratched last week, Mucho Gusto's record read: 63 victories...
...lost him only twice in seven years. Once she sold him to the late Walter O'Hara, Rhode Island's race-track czar, for $7,000, but bought him back the following year-after he had earned $21,000 for the O'Hara stable. Last May Mucho Gusto was claimed for $1,700 but the Ramseys reclaimed him two months later...