Word: sab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alsab, wonderhorse of 1941, won't be three years old until April 15. But on New Year's Day, birthday of all U.S. thoroughbreds, Sab came of equine age with a birthday party fitting a crown prince...
...tale goes the story of Alsab, son of a onetime race horse named Good Goods and a $90 mare. As a yearling, he looked so worthless he was knocked down for only $700 at the Saratoga auction sales. Last week, in front of the insect-proof cage that surrounds Sab's stall at Hialeah Park, his owner, Lawyer Albert Sabath of Chicago, set up champagne for hundreds of two-legged guests, drank a toast to the colt that has already won $110,610 for him, the colt with whom he would not part for a quarter of a million...
...lost only one race (to Upset) in his career; Sab has already lost seven. But Big Red's whole career consisted of only 21 races, while Sab, in one year of racing, started 22 times, ran on eleven different tracks in seven different States. Moreover, he has run farther and faster than Man o' War did as a two-year-old. His 1:16 for 6½ furlongs is only one-fifth of a second over the world's record set by four-year-old Snark in 1937; his 1:35 2/5 for a mile...