Word: racing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shall die one . . . There never was any such species as Anglo-Irish; and there never will be. It is hard to make Englishmen understand this, because America can change an Englishman into a Yankee before his boots are worn out" Of the "illusion" that "the Irish are The Chosen Race ... I can only say that it exists, and that I share it in spite of reason and commonsense...
...Pimlico Special was Citation's last race of 1948, and he was the only horse in it. As he paraded to the post last week, convoyed by three lead ponies, the track announcer added a little excitement to the occasion by sepulchrally reciting the list of Citation's triumphs. But more convincing evidence was right there before the eyes of 11,618 race fans in Baltimore: owners of the 20 rival horses that were invited to run in the race had given up trying to beat...
There being no living horse to run against Citation in a winner-take-all race, many a sentimental horseplayer in the stands tried to fill out the empty track with bygone horses. How would Citation look against Equipoise, Count Fleet, Exterminator? How far off the pace, or how far in front would Man o' War be at the half? (Old Big Red had been eye-catching, with his giant 24-foot stride...
John Barton Townley, 34, is a rich Englishman with a Falstaffian laugh and a weak heart. Because of the heart, his doctor advised him to give up golf and rugger. So Townley, having studied the racing sheets as well as law at Cambridge, bought some race horses. Last week, at Newmarket, his weak heart thumped and bumped under a strain that might have told on stronger...
Seven selected men from Jaakko Mikkola's cross country squad will be running against the nation's best at 11 a.m. this morning in the annual Heptagonal, race at Van Courlandt park in the Bronx, New York...