Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain is a capable four event man who has improved with each performance this year. He will be one of the four Crimson entries in the famous "Inferno" race down Mount Washington this weekend...
...with a jockey who had never ridden the Aintree course before. Caughoo (who cost Dublin Jeweler J. J. McDowell $200 as an unbroken juvenile) finished 20 lengths out front. The fog was so thick that most of the 300,000 in the crowd had to read about the race in the papers...
...rest of Britain's besoaked sports fans were either watching rugby games and greyhound races, or among the 500,000 who lined the dangerously high Thames for the Oxford-Cambridge crew race. No one expected any record time for this event. Even if both boats stayed afloat (both sank in a memorable race in 1912), river officials were afraid that the soggy Thames banks might collapse, dumping the crowds in. But Cambridge, using its weight advantage of 8 Ibs. per man in bucking the flood waters, moved ahead in the first dozen strokes with a beat...
...Among the backers of Bricett (who failed to finish): the Reverend J. S. Clarke, vicar of St. Barnabas Church, Plymouth, who advised his congregation to put a bob (no more) on the race. He added: "Though betting is a mug's game, to say that he who puts a shilling on the National is morally wrong is probably not true." Suggested the U.S. magazine The Blood-Horse: why doesn't Parson Clarke call his next sermon "Blessed Are the Pacemakers...
...record himself last year when he was a physical instructor in the Navy. His time then was 2:19.5, which still stands on the books until his new marks are officially accepted. But by now Joe can do better while scarcely getting out of breath. Last week's race was his fourth record-breaker of this season...