Word: sesamoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayo Smith). Best bet to succeed him: fiery, onetime Big-League Infielder (Cubs, Dodgers, Braves, Giants, Cardinals) and Manager (Cardinals) Eddie Stanky. ¶ Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn, winner of the 1958 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, runner-up in the Belmont Stakes even though he fractured a sesamoid bone during the race, was judged incapable of carrying assigned racing weights despite successful corrective surgery, will be retired to stud in Lexington, Ky. Unplaced in his only race of 1957, the stylish colt, son of Tom Fool, won ten of 13 races this year, earned...
...Kentucky Derby and the Belmont, two-thirds of the triple crown, and run his total earnings to $237,725. Last week, his luck ran out. During a workout he suddenly broke stride, pulled up with his right foreleg hanging limp. X rays showed breaks in both sesamoid bones on his ankle...