Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco Real Estate Tycoon George Pope Jr., whose Decidedly won the 1962 Derby, Hill Rise has won six races in a row, including February's $132,400 Santa Anita Derby. Jockey Shoemaker was in that race-aboard Rex Ellsworth's highly touted The Scoundrel, a powerful, stretch-running colt that tied the Santa Anita track record for a mile in an afternoon workout. The Scoundrel finished fifth, seven lengths behind Hill Rise. And it was that view from the back that persuaded Shoemaker to pick Hill Rise as his Kentucky Derby mount. "He just ran off-whoosh...
...postcards picture it, the Atlantic Ocean off Miami is a land lubber's delight where only the antics of frolicking porpoises disturb the serenity of the Gulf Stream. But there are days, and plenty of them, when the east wind rises and turns the 160-mile stretch between Miami and Nassau into one of the meanest, choppiest patches of water anywhere. Then small-craft warnings go up, and cautious skippers stick to sailing olives in a cozy yacht-club...
...Three. On the relatively calm 161-mile stretch from Cat Cay to Sylvia Light, Max Aitken's Vivacity clung to a narrow lead, pursued by two Formula 233s. Bertram's Lucky Moppie was now running fourth, and Abbott's Rum Runner was fifth. Then one of the Formulas ran out of gas. Cracking along at 3,500 r.p.m. and 50 knots, Bertram overtook the other-and shot into first place when Aitken veered off course. With just three miles to go on the final leg from Hog Cay to Nassau, Bertram seemed to have it sewed...
...relatively weak Amherst is not Princeton, Andover, or Yale, and Wynn is clearly expecting trouble from these traditionally tougher squads. If his team is to stretch its winning streak it will have to eliminate some of the sloppy tennis it showed Saturday...
...mile victory was a crucial one. Knowing he had the two-mile yet to run, the Cadet senior tried to preserve his strength with a slow pace in the early going. Meehan failed to challenge for the lead, however, and let Straub get away from him in the stretch. The time was a slow...