Word: runners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sight is usually just a fantasy: horses often prefer simply to chase each other's tails. To make the race a better contest is the job of the track handicapper, who assigns weights-including saddle, jockey and lead slugs slipped into the saddlebags-to slow down the fast runner, give the other horses a chance to compete. At the nation's top race tracks-New York State's Belmont, Saratoga and Aqueduct -the man who decides how heavy a load the horses will carry is a tall, freckled handicapper with the eminently horsey name of Tommy Trotter...
...fallaway" or "hook" slide), Cobb made up for a lack of natural speed with daring, guile and meanness. His favorite tricks included kicking the ball out of a fielder's hand or permitting a throw to hit him. "I believe the base paths belong to the base runner," Cobb said-and he did not hesitate to spike infielders who tried to block his way to the bag. After he slashed Philadelphia's famed Frank ("Home Run") Baker on the arm in 1909, Cobb received 13 threatening letters from Philadelphia fans. The fans never got revenge, but Cobb...
Died. George Criticos. 77, Greek-born friend of royalty and porter to the famous for more than 45 years at London's Ritz Hotel, who in 1932 chaperoned the then 21-year-old Aly Khan on a three-month American junket, and later moonlighted as his bet runner, placing more than $700,000 on the horses during the prince's last 27 years; of heart attack; in London. Criticized Criticos in his autobiography: "Millionaires are not usually very happy people, I have found. They're too full of worries about their wealth and health...
...dominates policymaking, chairs the "legislative task force" that keeps a hawk-eyed watch on federal legislation, and swoops in to fight bills that run counter to A.M.A. principles. The headquarters' permanent staff inevitably wields great power. No one-year president, such as Larson, can dislodge it. A front runner for next year's presidency, who showed an itch to get the reins in his own hands, was shunted aside last week...
Globemaster-a habitual front runner-spurted boldly into the lead. Through the backstretch, Panamanian Jockey Braulio Baeza kept Sherluck comfortably second, just off Globemaster's slow pace. For the favored Carry Back, "there was no running room anywhere," said his jockey, Johnny Sellers. "When I called on him, he just spit the bit out." In the stretch, Sherluck overhauled Globemaster to win by 2¼ lengths and pay $132.10 for a $2 ticket. Fifteen lengths behind, Carry Back was a dismal seventh...