Word: rowston
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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Half of England, according to a royal commission's report on gambling, got a bet down on the Derby. At the track, garishly garbed "TicTac" men waved semaphore signals to their bookies as reports on off-course betting came in over the "blower" (telephone). A Yorkshire colt named Rowston Manor and a French challenger, Ferriol, were joint favorites at 5 to 1. Few bothered with an American-bred chestnut colt named Never Say Die. He had won only once as a two-year-old, had run three times this year and never finished first. He went...
Neurotic Horse? Far across the rolling infield 22 thoroughbreds nudged the starting tapes, and they were off. Uphill to the mile post, favored Rowston Manor began to outpace the early leaders. The Queen's colt, Landau, was moving well, although he has been so temperamental lately that he has had to be attended by a psychiatric horse doctor. Never Say Die was a careful fifth. Almost out of sight behind the gorse at the far turn, the field thundered into the dangerous, downhill arc of Tattenham Corner. Rowston Manor faded. Landau quit. And then, in the stretch, Never...
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