Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post time drew near, he told Jockey Doug Dodson to stay off the rail, and added: "If none of the other horses make any real pace, just go ahead out there in front and stay in front." The jockey did just that. He never had to use the whip. He gave the big horse his head, and in track-record time Armed (TIME, Feb. 17) ran away with the $50,000 Widener Handicap, Florida's biggest race. Next stop, after a 14-hour plane trip: California and this week's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...
Seesawing continued when the final tallies of the dive showed Bob Aaron and Tom Drohan superior to Hanover springboard entries, and the Crimson setting the pace...
Meanwhile on the next court, Dunster was getting bad news along with the pace setting Bunnies, being nosed out 54 to 51 by the Dudley Commuters...
Harvard's postwar renaissance, conceived earlier this month at West Point, quickened its pace last Saturday afternoon in Yale's Indoor Cage, when the Crimson pinned a 55 to 45 defeat on the Elis. The meet was the third in a newly-initiated annual indoor series...
Earlier in the afternoon the Freshmen set the pace in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool at the expense of St. George's Prep to a score...