Word: sixteenths
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Suddenly a dark bay colt came charging down the center of the track. The devil's-red silks on his jockey were Calumet's. Ben Jones's long shot, at 16 to 1, caught tired Capot inside the Sixteenth Pole, and won by three lengths. With a pace-forcing assist from Capot, Ponder had won the Kentucky Derby in much the same way his sire, Pensive, had won it five years before-and in identical time...
...driving rainstorm, and stayed in front by a length or two to the homestretch. There, mud-loving Palestinian caught him and forged slightly ahead. Jockey Eddie Arcaro stung Olympia once with the whip, then gave the form players a chill by hand-riding the horse through the last sixteenth...
Music lovers may enjoy a rare opportunity tonight at 8:30 when the Boston Society of Ancient Instruments will present at the Memorial Church a concert of viol compositions of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries...
Freshman crew always attracts swarms of candidates in the fall because relatively few secondary schools have rowing teams, and those uninitiated to the art of oar pulling are intrigued by the idea of gliding along the Charles River in slinky shells with bottoms one-sixteenth of a inch thick...
...sixteenth century Gothic altar pieces of what Kuhn called, "unusually high quality," came from the Metropolitan Museum...