Word: ribot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ribot, the Italian wonder horse (TIME, July 30), unbeaten in 15 starts, ran away with the race in the stretch. A tired six lengths back came Britain's Talgo. Career Boy was a well-beaten fourth...
...Ribot, the barrel-chested, four-year-old Italian wonder horse, unbeaten in his 13 previous starts, had his work cut out to put away the Queen's own High Veldt and win the $78,820 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, richest race on British turf. Once the runt of the stables of Marchese Mario Incisa della Rochetta, Ribot has now earned $195,000, and his short, ungainly frame looks so attractive to foreign horsemen that the marchese has received offers up to $1,428,000 for him, a world-record price for any race horse. But Ribot...