Word: standings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, Bolles, Strong and Co. are to be congratulated. They stand an excellent chance of defeating Yale over the four-mile course at New London and thus finish the year undefeated. But even if they do this, they will not have met the toughest competition available: the fine western crews which will make their only east-coast appearance at Poughkeepsie the day after the Yale regatta...
Outside the theater, a loudspeaker endlessly blared There's No Business Like Show Business while cops rode herd on the crowd. Inside, with standees five deep, a frankly sentimental audience roared welcome to the ghost. Vaudeville had come back to its greatest and last stand, Manhattan's Palace Theater...
Before he was through, Whirlaway won $561,161 in purses and became the world's leading money-winner. "I couldn't stand a horse like Whirlaway now," says Ben, "he'd take too much...
...Family Stand-Off. Not long after Whirlaway was retired to stud, in 1943, Ben himself began to talk about retiring. Diabetes and the strain of 40 hectic years on the track was beginning to tell...
...trainer and manager of the Calumet Farm Training Stable," and turned the heavy chores over to Jimmy. Since then the stable has often raced in two divisions, with horses and trainers interchangeable. No matter who tightens the saddle girths, the horses keep on winning. Financially, it is a family stand-off with each of the Joneses getting a $12,000-a-year salary plus 5% of all purses won by Calumet (or some $160,000 apiece in the last two years...