Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Calumet's Citation and Coaltown, Fervent and Faultless, Pot o' Luck, Ponder, Bewitch and Wistful have run away from all competition. Other horsemen may not be happy about it, but the public is. Fans know that Calumet is not a betting stable, and that its horses are always sharp when they go to the post for a big race...
...system, argue that a horse can prove his greatness only under high weight. At anything like even weights, Citation and Coaltown are admittedly in a class by themselves. Horsemen and fans alike would like to see a match race between the two, but Warren Wright is too sharp a businessman to waste that much horsepower on a single race...
Successor to Ponder? Even with their aces on the sidelines, Ben Jones & Partner Jimmy are not exactly badly off. Wistful, easily the outstanding three-year-old filly of the season after her victories in the Kentucky and Pimlico Oaks, has drawn a sharp bead on this weekend's rich Coaching Club American Oaks. Calumet's 1949 Kentucky Derby winner, Ponder (son of Pensive), is one of the favorites for the Belmont Stakes two weeks hence...
...Sharp & Tired. Yet the hits of the show seemed to be two less well known Italian sculptors, both in their 40s and both art teachers in Milan. Francesco Messina had sent a polished bronze Pugilatore, done in the old Roman tradition of sharp realism. Pugilatore had the punch-dazed, flat-footed weariness, the slumping shoulders of a bantamweight turning back to his corner after the tenth round...
...cloudy afternoon last week, twelve men trudged up into the belfry of Lehigh University's ivied Packer Memorial Chapel, uncased shining trombones and lined up before their director. Sharp at 3:30, the first brassy notes of a chorale blared out across the leafy maples and echoed through the nearby streets of steelmaking Bethlehem, Pa. For the thousands on the'campus below, many of them visitors from all over the U.S., the 50th annual Bethlehem Bach Festival had begun...