Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took Fator on Brother Joe about a half-mile to find that he had picked the wrong horse. Brother Joe pulled up lame and Fator could see Burgoo King, running well with the leaders, in third place, behind Economic and Brandon Mint as they started down the back stretch...
Coming around the second turn, Burgoo King moved up with a burst of speed. From three lengths behind tired Economic at the head of the turn, he was four lengths ahead after the horses came into the stretch. Jockey James, who usually lies back to wait for clear running at the start of a race, has the reputation of being impossible to catch when his horse is leading in the stretch. Jockey Horn on Economic and Jockey Ensor, coming up fast with Stepenfetchit, found him impossible to catch last week. Burgoo King was first by five lengths at the finish...
...Bowdoin College, Tapping S. Reeve, 20, of Detroit, a freshman, was throwing the javelin for practice. Modern javelins are straight wooden rods 8.5 ft. long, weighing 1.6 lb. They are tipped with steel. In making the throw the expert runs swiftly for a stretch, stops short and heaves the rod past his ear. In effect he makes a throwing sling of his entire body...
...Trainer Treve ("Tommy") Woodcock, Veterinary Walter Nielsen and Jockey Willie Elliot will be given a free hand with eight or ten Kilmer horses. Unlike U. S. trainers who give their horses stiff, frequent tests for speed, Australia's Trainer Woodcock believes in long loping canters to build stamina, stretch muscles. Rich, hearty Turfman Kilmer was not rich until after he had built up his father's proprietary medicine business (Swamp-root}, invested shrewdly, bought the prosperous Binghamton, N. Y., Press. When people used to ask what Swamproot was good for, Mr. Kilmer would grunt : "Good...
...intelligently placid. A great subject of racetrack conversation was the method of Phar Lap's training. In the U. S., horses are given constant rigorous tests for speed. Phar Lap engaged in almost no speed trials at all. He cantered slowly for long distances to improve his stamina, stretch all his muscles slowly. U. S. turfmen expected that because of Phar Lap's prestige this method of training might gain popularity; that because of his death, owners of notable racehorses might be reluctant to risk sending them abroad...