Word: stagehand
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...Hialeah Park, Widener Day had its troubles too. The ballyhooed duel between Samuel Riddle's War Admiral and Maxwell (no relation) Howard's Stagehand fizzled when the pampered Riddle colt developed a slight fever three days before the race-when every seat in the Park had been sold. But Florida turf fans did not lose interest either...
Eager to see Stagehand, No. i money winner of 1938, repeat his performance of the fortnight before, when he snatched the McLennan Handicap from Warren Wright's promising Bull Lea in a spectacular stretch finish, 21,000 racing addicts jam-packed the Park-from the 40 ? bleacher section reserved for colored folks to the ;ony terrace boxes atop the clubhouse. Everyone talked Stagehand-from Fred Snite Jr., the famed iron lung patient who, with the aid of a periscope and mirrors, watched the races from Ks ambulance railer parked midway down the homestretch, and the sport writer...
When the race was over, 21,000 astonished fans realized that thoroughbreds are thoroughly unpredictable. The mighty Stagehand, a notoriously slow starter, lacked the stretch-running drive to overtake the leaders this time, finished three lengths behind speedy Bull Lea and a half length behind Marshall Field's Sir Damion...
...Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Nedayr: the $35,000 Arlington. Classic (for three-year-old thoroughbreds); defeating among others the co-favorites, Stagehand and Menow; at Chicago's Arlington Park. By his victory, Nedayr, a 14-to-1 shot, became the latest claimant to the evanescent three-year-old championship...
...between Herbert M. Woolf's Lawrin, Kentucky Derby winner, and William du Pont's Dauber, Preakness winner, for the "three-year-old championship" of the year. Missing from Hollywood Park's stalls last week were Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit and Maxwell Howard's Stagehand, the two outstanding California performers last winter, who were both going to Suffolk Downs instead for next fortnight's $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap...