Word: two-year-old
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...chestnut coat covers just an inch short of 25 ft. in a single stride. He has finished first in 11 of 14 races. He has won $804,202 since last July 4 -more than any other single competitor in any sport-and in 1972 as a mere two-year-old, he was named horse of the year. Now, having won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness this spring, Secretariat is an odds-on favorite to run away with the Belmont Stakes this Saturday and earn his right to the Triple Crown of American horse racing...
Secretariat's capacity for food was a handicap when Laurin began training him for his apprenticeship as a two-year-old. The name of the training game is patience. A horse has to gallop a mere slow mile a day before his muscles are in shape to gallop two miles. He has to gallop two slow miles a day for a long time before he is in shape to do any running. He has to run slow before he is ready to run fast, and short distances like a furlong or two before he is ready to run farther...
...only thing that scared Lucien Laurin as a struggling jockey out of Montreal was his spreading waistline. After twelve indifferent years of trying to overcome his appetite and mediocre mounts, he turned to horse training in New England. Laurin soon won a reputation for nursing sore-legged horses back to good form. After training such winners as Quill, the champion two-year-old filly of 1958, and Amberoid, winner of the 1966 Belmont Stakes, he joined A.B. ("Bull") Hancock's Claiborne Farm. On one memorable afternoon in 1969, he saddled Claiborne's Dike to win the Wood Memorial...
These claims are all lies. The bombing, as some reporting has started to show, is directed against an indigenous revolutionary movement, the Khmer Rouge, a force numbering in the hundreds of thousands which is attempting to topple the Lon Nol regime, Nixon's two-year-old creation. The aerial war does not discriminate between military and civilian targets: indeed, there is no difference between the two in a people...
...fact, a modicum of suspense was needed to save the Derby from tedium. No one wants to bet against a horse that seems invincible, and invincible is exactly what Secretariat appeared to be before the Wood. As a two-year-old, the offspring of Bold Ruler had dominated his peers, winning seven of nine races. He was subsequently voted Horse of the Year, an honor usually reserved for older thoroughbreds. After being syndicated for the record sum of $6,080,000, he opened the 1973 season with convincing victories in the Bay Shore and Gotham Stakes...