Word: sores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tantalizing, is whether without the "bute", Dancer's Image could still have mustered his stretch charge against the 2-to-1 favorite Forward Pass, who now receives the trophy, the $122,600, and the shot at the Triple Crown. Dancer's Image has been bothered all his life with sore ankles, and if the "bute" did anything, it alleviated the pain which might have prevented him from giving his best effort...
...fight to establish the lead in the mile and one-quarter race. The question in the stretch would simply be whether the late-running Dancer's Image would be able to catch the tiring Forward Pass. It is a tough assignment for any horse; for a sore-ankled champion, tougher still...
Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, who was instrumental in organizing the committee, shared that confidence. Though his enthusiasm was at a low ebb several weeks ago when he declared, "To use an old Kentucky ex pression, I suppose I am just plain track sore," now Morton was ebulliently predicting that in a short time the committee would succeed in mustering broad support for Rockefeller's candidacy. Added Morton: "If we can't do it in four weeks, then we might as well give up. We'll have more delegates lined up in four weeks than...
CONSTANT confusion--most due to simple staff errors--in the scheduling of the campaign was another sore spot. "Somebody thought it took two hours (instead of half an hour) to drive to Fond du Lac," was the explanation for one such mistake. "Must be the same person who thought it took two hours to fly there," a reporter commented...
...spite of a plague of pulled muscles, bruised shoulders, and sore arms, however, the laxmen managed to net a 3-2 record overall against some of the toughest competition in the nation...