Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kentucky Derby would be the dullest in years. But yesterday afternoon, the ninety-fourth running of America's most famous horse race turned into one of the most bizarre incidents in sports history. Boston-owned Dancer's Image, who won the race with a dramatic closing rush in the stretch, was disqualified and placed last on the charge of being drugged--presumably by his trainer...
...second question, now irrelevant but still tantalizing, is whether without the "bute", Dancer's Image could still have mustered his stretch charge against the 2-to-1 favorite Forward Pass, who now receives the trophy, the $122,600, and the shot at the Triple Crown. Dancer's Image has been bothered all his life with sore ankles, and if the "bute" did anything, it alleviated the pain which might have prevented him from giving his best effort...
...jayvee race, Harvard finished strong, cruising across the finish line with a 6:33.0 clocking, two full lengths ahead of Princeton and three in front of Yale. The Tigers had to turn it on in the final 400 meter stretch to overtake Yale...
...back side of the seventh lap, McLoone and Baker both kicked past the Yalie who proceeded to fade out of sight. Baker and Hardin ran together until the top of the home stretch before the Englishman turned on the kick he supposedly doesn't have to clinch the meet...
...colt last month, Dancer's Image is a son of Native Dancer. Like his daddy, he is a grey. Like his daddy, he prefers to come from off the pace: two weeks ago, at New York's Aqueduct Race Track, he made up four lengths in the stretch to win the $113,500 Wood Memorial-the same race Native Dancer won en route to the 1953 Kentucky Derby. Oh, oh. That 1953 Derby was the only race Native Dancer ever lost; knocked off stride as he rounded the first turn, he lost by a head...