Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Investors in equine enterprise often use the term boat race to suggest certainly of outcome. In Star Class boat racing, however, the issue is always in doubt until the finish line, and that's why Hilary H. Smart '47 of Dunster House may be representing the U. S. in Olympic sailing this summer...
...been a marked change from the old roughrider days of Shilling (who used to grab hold of other horses' bridles) and the jockeys who were experts at leg-locking.* It was the moving picture camera that did it. At Jamaica six cameras now record every foot of every race. "It's foolish to try any rough stuff now," says Arcaro. He also gives a large share of credit to gentlemanly Jockey Ted Atkinson, who helped raise the standard of sportsmanship on New York tracks. "Guys will shut him off, but when he gets them in a bad spot later...
...different was Earl Sande, idol of the '20s, who saved his money and bought race horses. This season he had hard luck: though he owns twelve horses he has won only one race so far. Last week, he was brought up before the racing stewards after a saliva test showed that his one winner had been given a caffeine stimu lant. He was suspended from racing for 60 days. ? Carolyn A., a filly named for her, won last week's $25,000 Firenze Handicap at Jamaica. ** Plus the usual tip, which is 10% of the purse. *Apprentice jockey...
...Established writer would like a good up-to-date idea for a motion picture which avoids politics, sex, religion, divorce, double beds, drugs, disease, poverty, liquor, Senators, bankers, cigarettes, wealth, Congress, race, economics, art, death, crime, childbirth and accidents (whether by airplane or public carrier); also the villain must not be an American, European, South American, African, Asiatic, Australian, New Zealander, or Eskimo ... No dogs allowed. Apply...
...book is like an evening of mellow talk over bourbon and water. Its author, who once wrote a bestseller about the Sears-Roebuck catalogue, was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta country he writes about. Instead of a serious study of the cotton economy and the problem of race relations, he has reported loquaciously, and with the leisurely humor of an old-school Mississippian, on the moods and customs of Delta society...