Word: racing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other People's Houses. Millions of citizens could not get out of town but they went motoring anyhow. In Kansas City, thousands spent their evenings driving slowly through the suburbs, critically eyeing other people's new houses. Great crowds drove to the race tracks and the ball parks. Zoos, parks, botanical gardens, got their full share of the army of spring-struck automobile owners. By night youth took to the highway; couples parked in Pittsburgh's Schenley Park, in the foothills above Albuquerque, and along a thousand Old Ox Roads...
...pony type bred for a short, dizzy burst of speed. Still, Fred Hooper figured that his thoroughbred, Olympia, could run a faster short burst than any horse he had ever seen. No one knows exactly how much money changed hands that day on the quarter-mile match race between Stella Moore, the quarter-horse from Texas, and Olympia, the finely tempered thoroughbred. The race-track experts themselves leaned toward the quarter-horse. But tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) Fred Hooper quietly covered all bets-and saw his thoroughbred win by a neck...
Shortly after his victory over the quarter-horse in Florida, Olympia was loaded onto an airplane for California. Flashing to the front in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Felipe Stakes, Olympia was still there at the end of the seven-furlong race. But in the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby, at a mile and an eighth, he weakened in the stretch and finished second to Old Rockport, an unsung outsider. Flown back to Florida, Olympia won the $50,000 Flamingo Stakes (at a mile and an eighth), then headed for New York. A rugged, unemotional colt, Olympia seemed...
Tradition has it that the first filly to boot a winner home this morning will wear the winner's wreath in the biggest rat race of them all-a wedding band--before any other member of her class. If she already has the services of a legally acquired stud, the story goes, she will be the first to foal...
Mildred McAfee Horton, the track steward, uttered a warning to any male spectators who might misconstrue the purpose of the race. "This is not," said the polite Wellesleyite, "a claiming race...