Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's Jamaica race track next day, Derby Candidate Hill Prince (TIME, April 17 et seg.) put on a show of his own. With Jockey Eddie Arcaro holding him close to the rail, he took the lead at the head of the stretch, went on to win the $49,050 Wood Memorial in a closing rush. Hill Prince's time of 1:43.6 for the mile-and-a-sixteenth Wood was the second fastest on record (fastest: Count Fleet's 1:43 in 1943). Arcaro kept Hill Prince moving after the finish, worked the bay the full...
...victory at that distance would be proof that Hill Prince was something more than just a fine sprinter. Proof was deferred. Moving up at the five-sixteenths pole, Hill Prince scraped the rail, lost his stride, found himself hopelessly blocked by the laggards at the head of the stretch, finished ninth in a field of eleven. The winner: Hal Price Headley's Lotowhite, 18 to 1. Said Eddie Arcaro: "That race doesn't prove a thing...
...Experimental at a mile and a sixteenth. "He's just as good as he was last year," Arcaro said. "But he's never had to go more than 6á furlongs in a race. Some people doubt he can go for distance and might hang in the stretch. But I think he'll go on and on." Jockey Arcaro had reason to think so. Instead of pulling Hill Prince up after the six furlongs last week, Eddie had kept him pelting through the mud for two furlongs more. His instructions from Trainer J. H. ("Casey") Hayes: work...
...always a lace-and-ribbon rather than a cap-and-sweater socialist. He adored reason and persuasion above emotion and force. He also loved the elegance of the society he deplored. He liked to recite by rote for hours at a stretch from Pascal, La Bruyere, Saint-Evremond. He knew Anatole France, Zola and Proust. He wrote Latin verse, brilliant dramatic reviews for avant-garde magazines, a study of Stendhal, an imaginary talk with Goethe, a book on marriage (dedicated to his wife) that shocked the bourgeoisie because it favored as much premarital experimental love for women...
...novel expedient of changing horses in the stretch, Radio Corp. of America made a surprise spurt in the color television sweepstakes.* Abandoning the "dichroic mirror" cathode tube which it had used through the past 3½ months of demonstrations before the Federal Communications Commission, RCA last week unveiled a new, all-electronic, direct-view color tube to some 60 newsmen at an NBC studio in Washington...