Word: pompoon
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Samuel D. Riddle's three-year-old race horse War Admiral, ridden by seasoned Jockey Charley Kurtsinger: the 47th Preakness Stakes, for a prize of $45,600; by a head, after a neck & neck drive against Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon, whom he outran by almost two lengths in last fortnight's Kentucky Derby; at Pimlico racetrack, Baltimore, Md. ¶ Marshall Eldredge, 36-year-old East Weymouth, Mass, mechanic: the tenth annual 130-mi. Albany to New York boat race, No. 1 event of the year for outboards; at 41.7 m.p.h.; in a Jacoby Flyaway Special...
After the race was over. Kurtsinger said: "There was nothing to it." This was an exaggeration but after the first turn, there was never a moment when it looked as though War Admiral might lose. Coming into the stretch, Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon challenged him for the lead. Jockey Kurtsinger touched War Admiral once with his whip and drew away. At the end of the race. War Admiral was going easily, almost two lengths ahead. Pompoon was second, eight lengths ahead of Mrs. Ethel Mars's Reaping Reward who nosed out the rest of the field...
...crop of last year's two-year-olds. Grouped together as favorites at odds of 4-10-1 until last week were Mrs. Ethel Mars's Reaping Reward. Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's Brooklyn, Samuel D. Riddle's War Admiral. Jerome H. Louchheirn's Pompoon (clockwise from upper left on TIME'S front cover). Last week the group suddenly dispersed. At Lexington, Ky. in the Blue Grass Stakes, when Brooklyn finished third, behind his stablemate Billionaire and Fencing (trained by Earl Sande), his owner withdrew him from the Derby.' At Jamaica...
...error. Nonetheless, last week a large portion of the U. S. press and public concentrated on doing so. Consensus of innumerable touts and tipsters who make their livelihood from just such vain speculations was that it was practically impossible for any horse at all to win the Derby. Pompoon's alleged fault was lack of stamina; his sire, Pompey, was a famed sprinter but bad at long races and 1¼miles is a long race. Brooklyn and his stablemate Billionaire were originally favored because horses from the stable of their owner, whose horses' names always begin with...
...Jerome H. Louchheim's colt Pompoon, favorite for next month's Kentucky Derby, smartly ridden by Jockey Harry Richards: the Paumonok Handicap, feature race of the first day of the New York racing season; by a neck, from Marshall Field's Tintagel; at Jamaica...