Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's Ascot Heath track, two pretty equestriennes, Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, staged an impromptu three-furlong horse race. Neck and neck most of the way, they galloped abreast into the stretch, where Margaret pushed her mount ahead to win by three lengths. Later, the two royal ladies still had horses on their minds. They turned up in West Norfolk to watch a horsy event, strolled to the stands with the care free air of schoolgirls on a holiday...
...horses broke well, pounded around the fading arc of the stretch turn where other Derby fields had tangled, and twisted the odds in their rush for the rail. Swaps wasted no time. Jockey Willie Shoemaker booted him clear, and he took the lead. Nashua eased wide, as Jockey Eddie Arcaro held him off the pace. Summer Tan, too, ran with the pack. Coming around the stretch turn again, Nashua made his move. He pulled up for a split-second look at Swaps, and then Shoemaker took his mount away. Said Arcaro later: "Swoosh went Swaps." Nashua just did not have...
Next Saturday's traditional league finale against Yale, usually a game which decides nothing but prestige, has assumed decisive importance, as the Crimson and Eli baseball teams each enter the stretch of the pennant race undefeated...
...Natick Nick Costes' students pleaded from the roadside: "Hurry, Mr. Costes." He obliged. At Wellesley Square he had the lead. He was running like a man who had studied the style of Czech Distance Ace Emil Zatopek-a sprint, then a stretch of jogging, then another sprint...
...within your means, and you'll have fun." One afternoon last week, Alf gave the clubhouse punters three successive winners: Elladora, a 6-to-1 shot; Grand Statute, a 10-to-1 surprise; and Running Water, a 3-to-1 stake racer that survived a tough stretch battle and a foul claim to take the purse. A ?1 ($2.80) parlay on the three paid $862.40. It was almost too much for one conservative gentleman. "From now on," said he, as he tried to revive himself in the bar, "I'm in favor of coexistence...