Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They are obviously the work of a dead race-the people who thought Los Angeles was going to be a Cleveland with orange trees. After four frantic years of war and four wild years of peacetime boom, it is plain that Los Angeles will never be like anything else on earth...
...Chicago, where 132 lbs. is the maximum weight a race horse is required to carry, all-conquering Calumet Farm got ready to hear the cash register ring. It was different there from Belmont Park, N.Y., where last month the handicapper tried to put 138 Ibs. on Coaltown in the rich Sub urban Handicap - and Calumet refused to run him. At Arlington Park last week, carrying 132, Coaltown got his nose in front momentarily in the $27,800 Equipoise Mile. After that, he looked like just an other horse as he took a three-length trouncing from Star Reward, running...
...great friend of American independence, appeared at Ascot, they say, in a grey topper, and started a fashion that slowly took hold. In 1791 there was a celebrated running of the Oatlands stakes at Ascot. Baronet, owned by the Prince of Wales (later George the Fourth), won the race after London had gone almost out of its collective mind over the event. An estimated ?500,000 changed hands in bets, and the Prince picked up ?17,000 in wagers...
...takes so little to set Sprinter Mel Patton's delicate nerves to jangling that he never reads the sport pages before a race. But he could not help knowing that the East had a challenger for his championship, a lanky Negro lad named Andy Stanfield, from Seton Hall College (N.J.). The night before the N.C.A.A. championships, Patton's wife artfully kept his mind off the race. He didn't begin to work himself into a state-in which his placid disposition turns sour and he fails to recognize his best friends-until just before...
Lucky Joe. In the Rio Grande cotton country, the first bolls of the new crop were ripe and the annual "first bale" race was on. Near Me Allen, Tex., young (27) Joe Acosta directed the 150 pickers on the 1,600 acres he tenant-farms, while he kept in touch with the nearby cotton gin, checking on his rivals. When Acosta had enough, he rushed the cotton into town to be ginned, piled the 512-lb. bale aboard a pick-up truck and raced 350 miles to the Houston Cotton Exchange in 6½ hours. For bringing in the first...