Word: three-year-olds
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...Tampa's winter sun; it was in Florida to investigate reports that Tampa was the center of a crime syndicate that ran a dope-smuggling ring and a lottery with a take of $20 million a year. For the Tampa Tribune (circ. 101,051), the committee's arrival was a fine acknowledgment of the paper's three-year-old crusade against Florida crime. In the course of its campaign, the Tribune had toppled four state officials from office, helped bring some 50 gamblers to court, and with the help of other Florida papers, all but stopped slot...
...Inglewood, Calif., Horse-of-the-Year Hill Prince over three-year-old Filly-of-the-Year Next Move, by three-quarters of a length, for the $50,000 Sunset Handicap at Hollywood Park...
Heading the entry list were 1950's Horse of the Year Hill Prince, and Handicap Champion Noor. Right behind them, in anybody's book: the leading three-year-old filly, Next Move, and Calumet's handicap star, Ponder (total winnings: $541,275). Others which had to be given a chance at the weights: New York's Palestinian, California's On Trust and the 1946 Triple Crown winner, Assault. Noor, beaten three times in three starts at Belmont in the fall, was back in form; in a tune-up race, he broke the Hollywood track record...
Eddie Arcaro, who rode the Prince, thought his three-year-old might have had the worst of the weights (130 Ibs.) against five-year-old Noor (also 130 Ibs.) -but "still and all, my hat is off to Noor." Said wrinkled Jockey Johnny Longden: "Noor is the greatest stakes horse I ever rode." Said Noor's owner, Mrs. Charles S. Howard: "I believe we'll just retire him at his peak...
...When U.N. Mediator Sir Owen Dixon suggested that India compromise with Pakistan to end a three-year-old dispute over possession of the princely state of Kashmir, Pandit Nehru...