Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place, waiting for Believe It, third in the Kentucky Derby, to lead the way. When Believe It hung back, Cauthen moved to the front. With stopwatch precision, he then cut the pace, lulling the field into marching to his drumbeat. Affirmed ran the first half-mile in a plater-slow 47 3/5 sec., Cauthen actually managing to rate, or husband, his horse while loping on the lead. Thus, when Jorge Velasquez pushed Calumet Farm's Alydar into his stretch surge, Affirmed was rested and ready to run. Said Cauthen simply: "He came up and set his horse down...
Nyiregyházi's record and tapes fascinate: in an age of precision playing, they are passionate. His slow tempos, like Liszt's, are funereal; each note seems weighted. He repeats at will sections that he finds lyrical. When he is loud, he is very, very loud, and often the great rushes of sound are overpedaled into a blur...
Mayotte and Anastoupolo broke Lundy's service twice in the second set to cruise home to the 6-3 victory on the slow courts...
...Slow Start...
...Lundy-Chaikovsky number-one doubles pairing also had a slow start in '78, dropping a string of matches before peaking at Yale, where they defeated the national indoors championship team of Matt Doyle and Cary Leeds in a three-setter...