Word: straightaways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancestry more seriously than ever before, and even the judgment of his jockey, the famed Tommy Cullinan of County Limerick, son of a sporting farmer, famed for his clever finishes and for leading with Billy Barton at the last fence in 1928. But Tommy Cullinan was moving up the straightaway with Shaun Goilin, and in the final sprint he passed Sir Lindsay, raced Melleray's Belle neck and neck in the last 100 yards, crossed the line a winner at 100 to 8. Melleray's Belle was second, Sir Lindsay third; far behind were Glangesia, Ballyhanwood. No others...