Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blue Grass Stakes, tune-up for this week's Kentucky Derby; at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. The heavy favorite at 3-10, Ada L. Rice's colt charged into the lead rounding the last turn, fought off Earl Allen's fast-closing Swift Ruler to win by half a length. In another Derby prep, Raymond Guest's Tom Rolfe, a son of Ribot, the Man o' War of Europe, raced to a 1 3/4-length victory over Native Charger in the Stepping Stone Purse at Churchill Downs...
...Blue Grass Stakes at Kenneland Race Track, one of the many possible stepping-stones to the Derby. The race was won by Lucky Debonair, an invader from the West Coast, in the lightning-fast time of 1:49. In the Blue Grass, a horse by the name of Swift Ruler came from ten lengths behind and battled it out with Lucky Debonair in the stretch, losing by a scant half length...
...Swift Ruler, who nearly upset Lucky Debonair in the Blue Grass, is going to win the Derby. As a two-year old he raced in the Chicago area, winning five of nine races against fairly good competition at short distances. This spring Swift Ruler's trainer shipped him to Oaklawn Park, a very low-class track in Arkansas. He won four races with case, and seemed to prefer long distances, though his wins came against rotten opposition...
...happy trainer, Hirsch Jacobs, who has never had a Derby champ although he has sent more winners to the post than any other trainer in the U.S. "He's earned the trip." Bon voyage! Over the years, some pretty fair horses have won the Wood. Nashua, Bold Ruler and Native Dancer, for example. All three went to Churchill Downs. All three were Derby favorites. None...
...year-old in history; two months ago in Florida, Sadair cracked a bone in his foot. Then there was Bold Lad, brightest star in Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps's Wheatley Stable, the top money-winning stable in the U.S. ($1,073,572 in 1964). A son of Bold Ruler, "the fastest horse in the world up to nine furlongs," Bold Lad seemed like a chip off the old block when he won six stakes last year. He was, in more ways than one. All through his career, Bold Ruler was bothered by "splints"-painful, tumorlike growths on the shinbones...