Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old, Miss Tilly was an alltime high money winner, but this year, in nine starts, she had not won a race. Last week she made up for all that. In the second and deciding heat, Driver Egan kept her in hand all the way and she was first by five lengths. Miss Tilly took down the third largest winner's share ($37,617) of the second largest purse in Hambletonian history...
Everyone knows who wins a race between a hare and a tortoise, but who wins a race between two tortoises? Answer: the tortoise with the smarter jockey...
Suits Are for Practice. Shirley May once swam 33 miles in Michigan's Lake St. Clair in 24½ hours. Last year she wound up tenth in the twelve-mile Lake George race, and since she was the only woman who ever finished that grueling event, she was given a trophy. Three weeks ago, as a warm-up for the Channel, she swam 14 miles from Manhattan's Battery to Coney Island, going a mile or more out of her way to avoid dirty water from a sewer...
...handsome chestnut two-year-old bounded out of the starting gate at Jamaica race track in the first race of his young life. His name was Air Lift, and he carried the brown & white colors of Texas' famous King Ranch. Horsemen had looked him over in the paddock with care and admiration. He was a full brother of Assault, who won the Triple Crown for King Ranch and Trainer Max Hirsch in 1946, and a son of Bold Venture, who won the Derby and Preakness in 1936. On his dam's side, he was descended from the great...
...when Damon Runyon wrote his last stories, they had become as predictably stylized as a Balinese dance. His Broadway heroes, for example, were called Sam the Gonoph, Harry the Horse or Gigolo Georgie; they could calculate the death of a pal as coldly as the third race at Jamaica-but in Runyon's last-paragraph twists and hooks they always proved to have hearts of gold...