Word: shue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next 22.3 seconds everyone held his breath. Almost before anybody knew it, four-year-old Princess had daylighted Shue Fly by a length and a half and huge sums of money were changing hands...
...down, even though pari-mutuel betting is illegal in Texas. On race day, a mixed lot of Mexicans, gaily-shirted cowpokes and bigtime cattle and oil men walked around the race grounds clutching $100 bills and hunting bettors. ''Two hundred even on Princess". . . . "A hundred says Shue Fly daylights Princess" (meaning Shue Fly would win with daylight between her and her rival). It was so hot-110°-that men lined up in the shade of telephone poles and women held wet towels over their heads. By lunch time, even without pari-mutuel windows, $300,000 in bets...
...were ridden out onto the dusty alkali-white track. It was Texas' biggest quarter-horse, or "short," race in years: a match race between the two best short racers in the Southwest. In a box by the rail sat the three Hepler brothers of Carlsbad, N.Mex. They own Shue Fly, a true quarter horse-chunky, big-muscled, able to travel short distances (a quarter of a mile) with blinding speed. They had put up a $15,000 side bet, and most of the oldtimers went with them on Shue...
...Cattleman Robert Kleberg, who had passed up a chance to see his great horse Assault win the $40,000 Grey Lag Handicap at New York's Jamaica track. He had posted his $15,000 on Miss Princess, the race track horse he had converted to quarter horsing. Unlike Shue Fly, who is really a glorified range horse and bred for short racing, Princess was royally sired (by Kentucky Derby winner Bold Venture). She had once flashed dizzy speed on regulation race tracks-but couldn't seem to go farther than half a mile and win. To avoid bumping...
After the race. Winner Bob Kleberg walked over to the Hepler Brothers and offered them $10,000 for Loser Shue Fly. He was politely turned down. Then he issued a friendly invitation that was accepted. Next morning, gallant ten-year-old Shue Fly, her quarter-horsing days over, was shipped to Kleberg's 875,000-acre King ranch, there to be bred to Kentucky Derby winner Bold Venture...