Word: ruidoso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest quarter-horse race of all is the annual Ail-American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex. Come Labor Day, some 10,000 bona fide and drugstore cowboys-along with doctors, lawyers and oil-rich Indian chiefs-will turn out to see the tenth running of the 400-yard event billed as the "World's Richest Horse Race." Prize money for this year's Futurity is $615,000, nearly four times the size of the purse offered at the Kentucky Derby...
...Savannah Jr.: the $419,460 All-American Futurity for quarter horses, richest horse race in the world; at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex. A 12-1 long shot, Savannah Jr. sped 400 yds. "through the mud in 20.3 sec. to score an easy 21-length victory, earn $192,730 -or roughly...
...holiday crowd of 6,500 looked as if it had been ordered from general casting by the director of a western movie. At the mile-high, five-furlong race track near Ruidoso, N. Mex., wizened Texas cowpokes in shrunken Levi's clutched $100 bills while they hunted for the parimutuel windows. Dark-faced Apache youths in blue jeans lined up along the rail reading their racing forms. Oklahoma oilmen in neatly tailored riding pants shared tacos and tamales with their Dior dressed wives. Track police sported Stetsons and packed six-guns, consciously copying the deputy marshals who ruled...
...time the betting windows closed for the All-American Futurity, a record $50,700 had been pumped into Ruidoso Downs' parimutuel machines, and the crowd's choices were a pair of California entries, Bunny's Bar Maid (2-5) and Golden Note (9-2). But when the ten-horse field broke from the gate for the breakneck straightaway dash to the wire, both favorites were left at the post, hopelessly beaten-for it is at the start, with jockeys flailing and horses driving hard, that quarterhorse races are won. Winner by a remarkable 1½ lengths...