Word: perifox
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Most excited betters had put their money on Perifox (son of Gallant Fox), which William Woodward hoped would prove the second U. S.-bred horse to win the Derby, or Lord Astor's Cash Book or the French colt Le Ksar. Still confident was the round, brown Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems, that this year his one entry would outrun the pack to give him three Derby victories in a row. Queen Elizabeth, however, bet ?1 on Mid-Day Sun, quoted at 100-to-7. Mid-Day Sun's best previous performance had been...
Epsom Downs is not a flat mile-and-a-half but a tricky course which first runs uphill, drops down around a sharp turn, rises again at the finish. Coming into the stretch, Goya II forged in front as Perifox and the Aga Khan's Le Grand Duc moved up to challenge. Goya II soon faltered and Jockey Michael Beary, who had run Mid-Day Sun to the outside to escape the friction at the turn, pushed his steed fresh down the sun-baked stretch, streaked up to a clean length's lead. Mid-Day Sun held fast...
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