Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Feature event was the Santa Anita Derby, a $60,000 stake which would get top billing at any other U. S. race track. But at Santa Anita, where everything is colossal, it plays second fiddle to the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, grand finale of the 57-day meet. As the field of 15 three-year-olds paraded to the post, Sun Egret was the favorite and William du Font's Dauber had a large following; but hunch players and a few sentimentalists were betting on Stagehand, a shiny bay colt owned by Maxwell Howard of Dayton, Ohio...
Last year Stagehand finished his two-year-old season a maiden (a horse that has never won a race). But this winter, in the theatrical setting at Santa Anita, Stagehand blossomed into a star, won three races in a row. Racing fans all knew that the incomparable Earl Sande, most famed jockey of modern times, was Maxwell Howard's trainer. Because Earl Sande in his riding days had won 967 races (including three Kentucky Derbies and five Belmont Stakes), earned $3,000,000 for his employers, and had the reputation of being able to do more with a horse...
...Green according to authoritative observers, has the power to break 2:30 for the eight laps. Berizzi, if he has a good day, can swim as much as two seconds lower than this time. But that's just another "if." Arthur, of the sailors, will make it a good race with Walker for second place. In order to keep Jim Munroe fresh for Princeton, Coach Ulen will swim Walker tonight...
George von L. Meyer, of Hamilton, was chosen Treasurer in a close seven-man race. Other winners were Wiley E. Mayne, of Sanborn, lowa, named Orator, Robert W. Snyder, of Easton, Pennsylvania, Chorister, and John S. Bainbridge, of New York City, Poet. Morris Earle, of New York City, was rolled into the office of Odist by a majority of 113 votes over his nearest competitor...
...Iowa, with 223 votes, Richard H. Sullivan, of Marietta, Ohio, with 215, James Tobin, of Champaign, Illinois, with 179, Robert E. L. Strider, 2d, of Wheeling, West Virginia, with 165, and Harold M. Curtiss, Jr., of Milford, with 164. Between the fourth and the seventh man in the 1939 race there was a margin of just five votes...