Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shore of the Atlantic and the shore of the Pacific one afternoon last week lusty boos arose from the throats of 116,000 racetrack fans. At Suffolk Downs, on Boston Harbor, 66,000 New Englanders, the second largest crowd ever to witness a horse race in the U. S. gathered to watch a loudly ballyhooed meeting of War Admiral and Seabiscuit, two of the seven entries in the $50,000 added Massachusetts Handicap. Three thousand miles away, in brand-new Hollywood Park at Inglewood, 50,000 Californians gathered to watch a highly touted race, for a $50,000 purse, between...
...strange coincidence that happens perhaps once in a generation. Seabiscuit, whose scratching canceled the famed Memorial Day $100,000 match race with War Admiral, was withdrawn a half hour before post time because of a swollen tendon, and Dauber, who had been so excited the day he arrived in Hollywood that he jumped out of his van while riding from the rail-road station, bruised a leg and broke a tooth, was also scratched a half hour before post time because of a bowed tendon...
Three thousand miles away, the California racing fans saw a less exciting race but made some profit. Lawrin, so overwhelming a favorite in the field of three that there was a minus pool in the parimutuels for the first time in the history of California racing**, won as he pleased...
...wagered on the race, $130,000 was on Lawrin. The return was $2.20 for $2, the legal minimum of 10? on the dollar...
...Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, basking in his prize-ring fame, has given his race big ideas. When the idol of the Negroes, who has grossed well over a million dollars in the past three years, took up riding-in-the-park as a pastime, the colored upper crust of Detroit. Chicago and Cleveland followed suit, bought expensive saddle horses. Last week Joe Louis persuaded his wealthy friends to ship their horses to Detroit. Except for the fact that there were only six events and 16 horses (two of them Bing Crosby and McDonald's Choice, belonging to Sponsor Louis...