Word: straightaway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gone, won a $5,000 prize. His collection of poems. Now With His Love, got him a good rating on form. Last week bystanders saw him perform for the first time on the full-length course of a novel. Slow over the first hurdles, he picked up in the straightaway, came home in style...
Rain made the 6½-furlong straightaway that cuts diagonally across the main track at Belmont Park, N. Y. a brown belt of mud as 14 2-year-olds were saddled for the richest race in the world, the $100,000 Futurity. At the start, almost out of sight of the grandstand, Rosemont took the lead. Balladier, Chance Sun and Plat Eye caught Rosemont as the field crossed the main track. Then Joseph E. Widener's Chance Sun shot out ahead, opened a gap of four lengths between himself and Colonel Edward R. Bradley's Balladier...
...Gran Premio had a special importance for manufacturers of European racing cars. The French Grand Prix was won this year by an Italian Alfa-Romeo, the German classic by a German Auto-Union. The changes in the Monza track were expected to help the Italian cars which have less straightaway speed than the German. The victory of a Mer- cedes gave Germany first place for the year. Second finisher last week was Germany's Von Stuck, whose Auto-Union won the German race...
...outsider, was in front. Past the grandstand on the first time around, Gregalach, the Irish gelding who won in 1929, was leading, with Delaneige second, Forbra, 50-to-1 winner in 1932, a close third and Golden Miller, going easily, just behind. The field narrowed in the straightaway and made for the Canal Turn, the horses tiring now and their riders, in bright silks, holding them in for the high thorn hedge and water at Valentine's Brook. Unlike most Grand Nationals, last week's was run on a fair day: most of the crowd saw what happened...
...then Bonthron followed him. With two laps to go, Venzke caught up with Cunningham and passed him. Half a lap before the end of the race, Cunningham repassed Venzke. Bonthron started his sprint coming around the last turn. He passed Venzke on the outside and started down the straightaway toward the tape, four yards behind Cunningham. Thirty yards from the tape, the gap began to melt. The finish duplicated the finish of the first race, except that the judges decided that this time not Bonthron but Cunningham was inches in front. Venzke again was a stride behind. The time...