Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within two weeks after set sail the London Sunday Times's round-the-world yacht race last October, Donald Crowhurst's 41 -foot trimaran, the Teign-mouth Electron, had started falling apart. The lacing on the boom snapped, the port forward hatch sprang a leak, and then his generator went out, leaving him without electricity for three days. While his boat disintegrated with the pounding of heavy seas, the sailor's sanity, strained as it was by the loneliness of the solo odyssey and haunted by the specter of fail ure, also began to fall apart...
...wonderful example of class versus speed can be seen in part in the past performances of Coup Landing. The morning Telegraph will publish his most recent dozen races in the Saturday's August 2 paper. The horse is to run in the feature race at Rockingham Park. In his last ten races against second-class sprinters found at the likes of Fort Eire, Greenwood. Hazel Park, Woodbine, Rockingham Park, and Detroit Race Course this horse established an admirable record of nine wins in nine attempts...
...other race. In the Rumson Handicap at Monmouth against some of the classier New York sprinters the animal gave up against class horses, knowing that it had been overmatched. Never better than fifth the entire race, the horse finished sixth, thirteen lengths in arrears. The loss was not the jockey's fault as the comment was--"well placed, tired." Last week the horse won by twelve lengths against a dismal Rockingham Park field. This Saturday Coup Landing faces another lackluster array of local talent with the exception of the Eddie Anspach trained Red's Copy who would show a touch...
FIRST--BRISTO COUNTY showed signs of life in last race, worked a handy six furlongs recently, and reaches best stride over distance...
SECOND--MONMUMENTO II was given an easy race in last and should come to life today...