Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday's race, postponed from Friday when Lowell broke an oar in a reversion to tactics first popularized by Quintus Fabius Maximus '00, was clocked at the respectable time of 4:15, sans tailwind...
...unbiased observer knows that the Derby merely separates the wheat from the chaff. The wheat is sent to Baltimore, where two weeks later America's greatest race, the Preakness...
There was always a first time, decided Jockey Eddie Arcaro, up on Citation. He had it all figured out before the race, as he always has. Said he: "I wish those other horses would scratch out. Then I'd be breathing on Coaltown that first half-mile. Of course, if I go out and kill him off-and let one of those other horses come along and beat us both-they'd have a right to come after me with...
...race postponed for two hours when a Yale freshman 150 shell swamped and nearly sank in the rough waters, the Crimson paced home the Elis by three-quarters of a length, Princeton finishing third...
...companion events, the Freshmen also won their second race of the season, boating Princeton and Yale in that order. Crimson Jayvees again failed to break into the win column when the junior lightweights trailed both Yale and Princeton across the finish-line in the third race...