Word: raccoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cruel hoax was perpetrated on the contestant, spectators, and Aunt Jemima at Wednesday's first annual Quincy House Pancake Eating Contest, The official winner, the Raccoon, admitted that an integral part, in fact the only part, of his training had been smoking a drug known as marijuana. He also said that he had had two joints before the contest...
...Dancer's Image was disqualified for such an infraction after winning the 1968 Kentucky Derby. A post-race urine test revealed Dancer's violation, and if Larry DiCara and others of Wednesday's officials had been on the ball, they would have gotten a urine sample from the Raccoon, also known as Rick Tarnas, and then disqualified...
...circumstances are somewhat different. First of all. Dancer's Image is a horse, and the Raccoon is a man. And though both were led into their sin through their trainers, the distribution between species makes it clear that there was more chance of premeditated drug-taking by Tarnas. He must have known that was smoking those joints and that this is strictly prohibited in that it gives him an unfair advantage over his red-blooded American opponents...
Another difference was that the horse in question won with a strong finish. The Raccoon showed himself to be a voracious eater at the outset, but when the going got tough, he had trouble eating the final pancakes and was not still enjoying them as the rest of us were. He crawled across the finish line in a manner hardly befitting a champion...
...Budinger the same day that a 19 year-old dope fiend cheats his way to a pancake eating title. Dancer's Image was forced to surrender the top prize at the Kentucky Derby, and in view of this clear precedent, Quincy House should strip the pancake title from the Raccoon. Aunt Jemima would want it no other...