Word: oaklawn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...done on races beamed in by satellite from the major tracks in New York, Florida, Louisiana and California, the regulars watch all of the races--including the ones happening 50 feet away--on television. The tracks have names which are alternately pastoral and geriatric: the Fair Grounds, Bay Meadows, Oaklawn Park, Turf Paradise. Races go off like firecrackers on the Fourth, and watching four big-screen TVs and handicapping four sets of horses simultaneously induces a curiously pleasurable dizziness. I've seen a hobbled man pushing 80 scream for the duration of one race at Laurel, sling...
Then came victories in the Donn Handicap and the Gulfstream Park Handicap. At the Oaklawn Handicap in Arkansas last April, Cigar was accidentally whipped in the face by the jockey aboard another horse; most horses would have backed up after such a blow, but Cigar just got mad and blew away a stellar field. During the Hollywood Gold Cup in California last July, Cigar was hit in the head by a huge clod of dirt, and Bailey needed all his strength to hold back the horse before letting him go on to an easy victory. Cigar's folk-hero status...
Arkansas will not allow a fast pace. Even at Hot Springs' Oaklawn Park, the best horseracing track south of Churchill Downs, the atmosphere is friendly and relaxing, especially when the infield is open on Saturdays. And a hefty state tax break has given the track enough money to attract some of the best horses in the nation...
...calling card that read "Have Gun, Will Travel. Wire Paladin, San Francisco." One viewer, however, thought he must be seeing his double. Rhode Island Cowboy Victor DaCosta, who had been making a hit since 1946 at New England fairs (his cards read: "Have Gun, Will Travel. Wire Paladin, Oaklawn, R.I.") found Boone to be his dead ringer, right down to the black outfit and the derringer tucked up the sleeve. Last week, after 17 years' litigation, DaCosta, now 65 and a mechanic, won his suit charging that the series had been copied from his act. A Providence court ordered...
Swift Ruler, who nearly upset Lucky Debonair in the Blue Grass, is going to win the Derby. As a two-year old he raced in the Chicago area, winning five of nine races against fairly good competition at short distances. This spring Swift Ruler's trainer shipped him to Oaklawn Park, a very low-class track in Arkansas. He won four races with case, and seemed to prefer long distances, though his wins came against rotten opposition...