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Word: offtrack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racing history. He has won at nearly every distance from three furlongs to a mile and three-sixteenths, on every kind of track, under every conceivable condition except snow. He took the Florida Derby in the mud, the Garden State Stakes in slop, the Kentucky Derby on an offtrack, and the Preakness on a fast, cuppy (i.e., crumbly) surface. Although he holds the five-furlong track record at Florida's Gulfstream Park, Carry Back still has not shown how fast he can really run. Says Owner Price: "He has a tremendous amount of speed if he wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: By Grit, Out of Nowhere | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

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