Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half-mile and three-quarter posts, a field horse named Phil D. led the pack. Then Repetoire (8-1), winner of four straight stakes events this year, made his bid; in front at the mile, he folded in the stretch. Meanwhile, another field horse, Count Turf, had moved into contention. The Count threw up his head at the roar of the crowd, got a couple of solid whacks from Jockey Conn McCreary's bat, and took over the lead. From there to the finish, Count Turf poured it on, and the crowd goggled in amazement...
Along the stretch of road leading from the Hungarian border post of Rajka to the Austrian frontier station at Nickelsdorf walked a man carrying a suitcase and a traveling bag. He was pale, with deep shadows under his eyes; every few moments, he paused to catch his breath. An official U.S. car drove up, and out jumped a U.S. diplomat. "How are you, Bob?" cried Hal Ekern of the U.S. High Commissioner's staff in Austria. "Let's go, let's get out of here...
Jockey Pete McLean broke REPETOIRE forwardly, but elected to move up gradually while racing out of harm's way on the outside. Turning into the stretch, he made his run at the front horse, INTENT, a 9-to-1 shot. REPETOIRE was forced wide as the leader bore out, recovered and had enough left to beat late-rushing BATTLE MORN (10-to-1) by a head in a modest 1:44⅔ Third was INTENT, running only the third race of his career and possibly a comer...
Crime Photographer (alternate Thurs. 10:30 p.m., CBS-TV), after an eight-year stretch as a radio cops & robbers show, moves to television without leaving a single clue or cliche behind. News Photographer Casey, as played by Richard Carlyle, wears his hat on the back of his head, is a devil with the ladies, and is only halted in his headlong pursuit of justice by a hush-voiced announcer breathing: "Don't be half-safe, use Arrid...
...closest race of the day was the quarter mile run, in which Ed Grutzner of the Crimson fought off a stretch drive by Don Kelley of Holy Cross. John Packard made up 40 yards to give the Crimson mile relay team the nod over B. U.'s quartet...