Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the 60,000 racing fans who jammed historic old Churchill Downs last week for the 64th running of the Kentucky Derby looked down their rosy noses at a big, rugged colt from Missouri named Lawrin. In the first place, he was not bred in fashionable Kentucky or Maryland, like the nine other three-year-olds who were parading to the post for the mile-and-a-quarter race. What was more, he was a "winter horse" (one who campaigns at tracks that operate during the winter)- and only one winter horse had ever won the Derby...
Fabulous Stagehand, winter-book favorite for this year's Kentucky Derby (after he had won both the Santa Anita Derby and the Santa Anita Handicap in California last winter), had apparently passed his peak. In the Derby Trial Stakes at Churchill Downs four days before the big race, he was beaten by two of his lightly regarded contemporaries, and subsequently scratched from the Derby because of a sore throat...
...last week, amateur handicappers, who would have been playing Stagehand, were getting their money down fast on last fortnight's Wood Memorial winner, Fighting Fox, full brother of Gallant Fox. 1930 Derby winner. Kentucky hard boots liked Bull Lea, who had broken two track records in his two races at local Keeneland this spring. Hollywood visitors (like Joan Bennett, Jack Pearl, Joe E. Brown) made sentimental bets on Myron Selznick's Can't Wait. Long-shot players took a chance on Elooto, named after Owner William O'Toole, and hoped he would not run in reverse...
...Boston Red Sox struck out six batters in a game with the Detroit Tigers, he: i) won his third consecutive game of the current season and the 260th of his 14-year career in the American League, 2) pitched his team from third to second place in the pennant race, 3) benched himself in the lofty niche reserved for pitchers who have passed the 2,000-strikeout mark...
...Samuel Calthrop, a Roxbury, Mass, clergyman who found charm in other things besides divine philosophy, thought back to the time when he had trained Harvard's crew for its first race with Yale. Pondering on the smoothness with which the racing shell had slipped through the water, and knowing that railroad engines often use more power to overcome atmospheric resistance than to pull cars, Rev. Mr. Calthrop sat down with pencil & paper, sketched an "Air-Resisting Train" which anticipated by almost 70 years the modern streamliner...