Word: three-year-old
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...Said she: "I think I should back My Love." So did most of the 400,000 fans lining the track at Doncaster, England, for last week's St. Leger (rhymes with quaint ledger). My Love was the 7-to-4 favorite; the Aga Khan's mahogany three-year-old had already won the Epsom Derby and the French Grand Prix...
...days away from his best race." The morning of the Derby, Jones warned Jockey Eddie Arcaro: "Watch out for Papa Redbird," the horse that had just won the Arlington Classic. To be on the safe side, Jones entered another Calumet horse, Free America, a big, flashy, but unseasoned three-year-old whom Calumet is getting ready for the fall stakes...
...faced man who lives in Connecticut and makes hats. Unlike most fairly well-to-do men who own harness horses, he likes to race his own in the big time. At Goshen's Good Time Park last week, tradition was against him as he maneuvered his prize three-year-old into line for the start. No amateur had ever won the famed Hambletonian, trotting's Kentucky Derby...
...first race since winning the triple crown (TIME, June 21). It was only Citation's third race against older horses, easily the toughest handicap field he had ever faced. He was giving away chunks of weight to seven of the other eight horses. And no three-year-old had ever won the 20-year-old Stars & Stripes...
...victory a three-year-old could be proud of-but it had been too risky. Said Trainer Jones: "I think I made a mistake in letting Citation run . . ." Next fall, Citation might be started against older horses again, in weight-for-age stakes. But for the time being Citation would take fewer chances with his laurels...