Word: railbird
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old owned by Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, came surging back to twice beat the five-year-old Round Table, racing's biggest money winner, leads the nation's thoroughbreds in earnings this season with $537,004, last week was named horse of the year by the railbird's Bible, the Morning Telegraph...
...weather was clear, the track was fast, and the stake, $205,700, was the richest in the history of thoroughbred racing. Except for the absence of three topflight four-year-olds originally slated to run.† the fourth running of the Santa Anita Maturity had everything the most exacting railbird could ask of a great horse race...
...major setback in Citation's comeback campaign. As every railbird knew, there was no percentage in punishing a good horse to win $2,900 (winner's share of La Sorpresa) when there was a $100,000 plum in the offing. If Citation's tune-up had been a shade off pitch, he nevertheless remained the heavy favorite to run off with the $100.000 Santa Anita Handicap later this month. What did furrow some trackwise foreheads was how Miche had managed the surprise-even granted that he was an established stakes-class horse and Glisson had given...