Word: three-year-old
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...Whitney homebred* is a natural distance runner. The winner's share of the $35,800 Gold Cup purse brings the colt's 1951 earnings to a total of $209,025. If his racing luck holds, he will probably end the year as the leading money-winner as well as the three-year-old and horse-of-the-year titleholder...
...questionable whether he would ever get to the races ("You wouldn't have given $200 for him," said his trainer afterwards). As a two-year-old, the colt raced only twice, earning a measly $700. This year, since running a dull eleventh in the Kentucky Derby, he has turned into the runningest three-year-old in the U.S. He broke the track record at Belmont to win the Peter Pan Handicap, captured the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes, bruised a foot so badly he was laid up for two months, then came back to win the Lawrence Realization...
...aside," he cried. "This country is being literally flooded with un-American elements, a vast number of whom are today undermining and trying to wreck this Government and to destroy the American way of life." Colleagues pointed out that the bill was only designed to admit one three-year-old boy, half Japanese and half American, who had been adopted by an Air Force captain and his wife in Japan. "They always have some kind of an excuse for bringing these people here," snapped Rankin...
Like all U.S. dailies, the News is plagued by mounting newsprint prices and production costs. And its newest, breeziest competitor, the three-year-old afternoon tabloid Mirror, is taking more & more of its readers...
...phone and bought the dark brown horse for $25,000, sight unseen. He forthwith found himself too busy with defense work to watch his new trotter in competition (ten wins in 23 starts last year, one out of 13 this season). But last week, Contractor Kroening took a few days off, went to Goshen, N.Y. There, at the 26th annual Hambletonian mile (for three-year-old trotters), he saw his horse for the first time, and cheered a performance he will never forget...