Word: paddocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When post time nears for the race that he has singled out for play, he dispatches one of his men to the paddock to make a last minute check of the condition of all the entrants. After the horses come onto the running track he personally observes them through binoculars and checks his horse for any sign of latent stiffness...
Fourth, the newspaper handicapper cannot get any indication of the current condition of his selection by inspecting him in the paddock just before the race. A seriously washy or sore horse can usually be discounted from contention in a race...
There was, in fact, one vast improvement on the old: a four-level, cantilevered viewing stand, rising as high as a ten-story building and stretching a quarter of a mile. The best of Belmont has been retained and refurbished, including the paddock sheltered by a well-trussed, 140-year-old white pine. The new grandstand quarters for the exclusive Turf and Field Club would have been approved by the track's namesake, August Belmont (ne Schonberg), who once declared: "Racing is for the rich...
...ordered her grooms to treat the animals' cuts with Ardena Eight Hour Cream, massage their legs with Ardena Cleansing Cream. Because, or in spite, of this treatment, her Jet Pilot won the 1947 Kentucky Derby. Trackgoers remember her for post-time pep talks to her jocks in the paddock, when she exhorted them: "Get out in front and go, go, go!" They responded, and in much the same way as did her executives, when she pounded her fist on the desk and cried: "To get along in this world, you've got to fight, fight, fight...
Neither SECAM nor PAL will be ready for any sort of full-scale operation until the fall of 1967. In fact, France's only going color setup is a closed-circuit link between the paddock and the betting windows at Longchamp race track. That made even more apropos the remark of French Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, who claimed that France, in the hope of Europe-wide agreement, had so far been holding back its color TV industry "like horses at the starting gate." Said Peyrefitte: "Now we're telling them...