Word: sortilegio
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...each Sunday's meeting at the Caracas Hippodrome, the Five-and-Six splits 70% of a huge payoff pot among pickers of all six winners, the rest among pickers of five. The widow and her kids, choosing horses strictly on the poetic ring to their names, (e.g., Guadalupana, Sortilegio), filled in the form. She turned it in with a desperate prayer: "Dear God, help me-and if You can't, may it be the devil who will...
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