Word: nathoo
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...Brussels airport last week, Bayeux, the fastest horse in Belgium, was coaxed into a plane. Two hours later, the plane put down at England's Bovingdon Airport to pick up another passenger. The Aga Khan's grey colt Nathoo, winner of the Irish Derby, was taken aboard. The flying horses were U.S.-bound on a forlorn hope: they were going to meet Citation, the greatest race horse...
...transatlantic trip didn't do them any good. The plane, buffeted by headwinds, had to detour by way of Iceland. Nathoo took the pitching & tossing like a seasoned air traveler (which he isn't) but Bayeux got panicky and tried to kick his way out of the airplane. Despite all his armor (a helmet, knee guards and heavy leg bandages), by the time he was unloaded in New York Bayeux was bruised and scratched. Four days later, the two horses paraded postward at Belmont Park to take their shot at Citation in the $100,000 Gold...
...that day. He got left at the post. He really couldn't be blamed: in Europe they didn't have these newfangled starting gates, the horses raced on grass instead of dirt, and most of the tracks ran clockwise instead of counterclockwise. The Aga Khan's Nathoo did a little better. For a mile and a furlong, he hung on the coattails of the leaders before giving it up as a bad job. He was beaten by 31½ lengths...
...Longchamps victory last week on My Love made him the first jockey in history to win all four of Europe's big horse races the same year. He had already won the English Derby (on My Love), the Irish Derby (on Nathoo), the French Derby...