Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horse doesn't win this race," said white-haired Clifford Mooers with a grin, "my face will be as long as that post. I'm not a very good loser." Then Cliff Mooers climbed to his box in the stone grandstand at Keeneland track. The odds board showed that his horse, a long-barreled chestnut named Old Rockport, was 4-5 to win the $20,000 Blue Grass Stakes, his last big test race before the Kentucky Derby...
...excitement than what was, for Cliff, the newly discovered horse game. He bred Old Rockport himself (and named him after his favorite Texas golf course). After Old Rockport won the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby last winter (TIME, Feb. 28), Mooers got a transcription of the announcer calling the race; he still listens to it entranced, tears rolling down his cheeks...
Home of the Brave (Screen Plays; United Artists), as a Broadway play by Arthur Laurents, described the crack-up of a Jewish G.I. who was a victim of race prejudice. The movie version, produced by the same small studio that made Champion (TIME, April 11), daringly substitutes a Negro in the central role. Home of the Brave is thus the first of Hollywood's new series of Negro problem films to cross the finish line...
...fast was the time of the freshman crew in its Saturday race that it could have easily placed third in the record shattering varsity race. As it was, the '52 oarsmen's 8:54, which set a record for freshman rowing on the Charles, was more than sufficient to beat MIT, their perennial rival by more than a length and a half...
...powerful 150-lb crew was good enough Saturday to beat Harvard by over a length on Lake Carnegie and thereby lift the Goldthwait Cup out of the Crimson trophy case for the first time since 1937. Yale was the third entrant in the twenty-fourth annual Big Three Championship race...