Word: race-track
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...something new been added to race-track parlance? . . . Twenty years ago every trainer on the continent used "Bill Daly." It was supposed to stem from a "bullring" jockey whose technique was to "get the hell away and get the hell home...
Meanwhile, three horses, one for each principal, do a lot of running, over a plethora of courses in England, South America and the U.S. They are nobly beautiful animals and interesting to watch. But for all their running, they cannot parlay Homestretch into anything better than just another race-track picture...
...ward heelers, precinct captains and office seekers roared into the fairgrounds, leaving a wake of blended whiskey, cold beer and old Roosevelt jokes. They came by special train, bus, airplane, automobile caravan. They were cocky, noisy, full of fire. As farmers on the midway gaped, they clamored into the race-track grandstand for their own fun & fireworks...
...Races," wrote Queen Victoria to her gadabout son Edward, "have become so bad of late, and the connection with them has ruined so many young men." In her reign the royal stables were no great shakes, but Victoria did keep her house in order. Last week over her birthday (May 24) the good Queen would have been horrified to see her respectable great-grandson George filling his pockets with race-track winnings (see above) while his household went...
...week's end, no one knew the score-for certain. But Washington insiders held to the notion that racing was the one real target of the crackdown, and that the crack about re-examination of 4-Fs was a sop to silence race-track squawks. For one thing, every rejected draft registrant always has been subject to re-examination at any time; for another, it is no secret that Washington was sorely irked by last year's race-track gambling of a billion dollars that might have gone into war bonds, and by the increase in war-plant...