Word: railbird
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...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...
...Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Commandant of the entire Eastern Sea Frontier, came graciously to the microphone to make a neat little speech, in which he promised that the U.S. Fleet in the Pacific would win as Shut Out had just done. The thousands gave him a rolling cheer; a railbird shouted 'Atta boy, Admiral...
This Saturday, when a dozen three-year-olds parade to the post for the 68th running of the Kentucky Derby, the favorite will probably be one of these colts. But many a wise old railbird, well aware that the post-time favorite has won the Derby only 33 times out of 67, will hitch his money to a dark horse-maybe With Regards, the rheumatic $800 nag that won the Arkansas Derby last month; or Hollywood, a big Irish-bred colt imported by Texas Cattleman Emerson Woodward last fall and quoted at odds of 100-to-1 in the Derby...
...along the stiff, three-mile course. Like a crazy dream, first one spectator, then another, scampered onto the course, mounted riderless horses, took them over the remaining jumps and finished on the heels of the horse & rider that had stuck together. When the results were posted, the horses with railbirds up took second and third money. No New Zealander raised an eyebrow. For it is a common occurrence Down Under-just as it was a common occurrence in the U. S. up to the turn of the Century. Only stipulation: the railbird must not weigh less than the original jockey...