Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...post Equipoise, instead of fidgeting as he used to do two years ago, waited calmly for the barrier to go up. Mr. Khayyam broke fast, got off to a length's lead, with Gallant Sir a length behind and Equipoise running a confident third. Down the stretch, around the turn, down the back stretch, into the far turn the first three horses ran in the same positions. Then, on the far turn, something unexpected happened. Mr. Khayyam swung wide at the turn. Big Brand, an outsider, came up from fourth place along the rail. Gallant Sir, to pass...
...fans crowded Goshen's green valley, its dusty Main Street. Eastern newspapers sent their crack sports writers to cover it. A trotting horse is trained not to break into a gallop. Pulling the little low-hung sulky with the driver perched nearly under his tail, he must not stretch out to pull himself along, must drive his legs rhythmically down and back. He is rarely above or below form, cannot win on pure gameness. If he is fastest by the clock he usually wins. Hence last week the experts figured the favorite Mary Reynolds to win although...
...shadow of the rail across the inside of the track. When she broke nervously into a gallop and was taken to the outside, the leaders rushed past her. Driver Ben White got her back into stride, then set out after the, field, caught it on the second stretch. Tired by a blistering quarter-mile after her break, Mary Reynolds led Brown Berry to the last turn, when a third horse, Hollyrood Portia, left the ruck and set out after her. As Mary spun around the turn, Driver Egan desperately cut Brown Berry inside her. At the same time Hollyrood Portia...
...crowd gasped at how much Mary had left as she hammered down the stretch two lengths behind Brown Berry. Ben White pulled her wide and she whaled away down the outside, closing like doom on Brown Berry. Fred Egan slapped the reins and Brown Berry began setting his hooves down faster. Running along the rail 50 yards from the finish, Brown Berry set one down on a stone no bigger than a marble. Brown Berry plunged to the ground, his muzzle sliding through the dirt, catapulting Egan against his crupper and down between the shafts. Clinging desperately to the reins...
Certainly he is not connected in any way with National Affairs. His only popularity is because he is the Chief Executive's son. By no stretch of the imagination could it be considered a National Affair, no more than John Doe's similar action could be considered...