Word: stagehand
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...Fabulous Stagehand, winter-book favorite for this year's Kentucky Derby (after he had won both the Santa Anita Derby and the Santa Anita Handicap in California last winter), had apparently passed his peak. In the Derby Trial Stakes at Churchill Downs four days before the big race, he was beaten by two of his lightly regarded contemporaries, and subsequently scratched from the Derby because of a sore throat...
...surrender at Yorktown. the batting averages of all the baseball stars. He has also taught himself to read, write and use the typewriter, knows the Italian, French, German and Greek alphabets, reads people's minds. Interviewed by a sportswriter, George unhesitatingly predicted the winner of the Kentucky Derby: Stagehand...
...Santa Anita, before the race, Owner Charles S. Howard refused an offer of $100,000 for Seabiscuit. Two other Owner Howards had horses running-Maxwell Howard (Stagehand) and Nelson Howard (Gosum)-but the crowd of 50,000 that surged into Santa Anita Park like the newly swollen Los Angeles River (see p. 16), knew the Howards apart. When the race was over, some of the crowd wished that they had confused them. Winner, after an exciting nose-after-nose struggle down the stretch, was not Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit, but Maxwell Howard's young Stagehand, winner...
...stagehand came up to Miller from the wings. "Mr. Miller," he whispered, "the house is on fire...
...Sande-trained Sceneshifter, older brother of Stagehand and a likely choice for this week's Santa Anita Handicap, came close to victory when he placed second to War Admiral in the Belmont Stakes last year...