Word: two-year-old
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...same pattern has emerged in 1969. At the recent N.C.A.A. championships in Nashville, Tenn., an unknown 440-yd. runner named Curtis Mills streaked across the tape in 44.7 sec., .1 sec. under the two-year-old world mark. The first black trackman in the history of Texas A. & M., Mills whipped the Olympics' top two quarter-milers -Lee Evans and Larry James. Villanova's Marty Liquori, who finished dead last in the 1,500-meter finals in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, defeated World Record Holder Jim Ryun after nine tries in the mile...
Longden asserted that the Count's short career as a race horse can be directly attributed to his single effort at a mile-and-a-half, thus justifying scratching Majestic Prince from the Belmont. Perhaps Count Fleet's fifteen races as a two-year-old contributed more to his unsoundness than his six races at three. Longden and Majestic Prince seem to be quitting a Channel swim in full stroke a mile from shore, but they are quitting winners. Anyway everybody knows that Mom, Apple Pie, and Undefeated Triple Crown Winners are just a mirage...
...Knight, a two-year-old champion, has been trained since the Florida Derby like a sore horse, and has run that way. In the Belmont, should he be entered, he might regain his Florida form. Running in front unhampered by challenging early speed he could hold off the late runners. This is the only way he could win. 10 per cent chance...
Ugly Colt. The horse that is expected to be hot on those well-turned hoofs is Top Knight, a 2-to-l contender who is shorter on looks but longer on earnings. Last season's top two-year-old, he has won seven times in 13 starts for total winnings of $511,921. Though he has faltered in a few races, Top Knight has won impressively against a far better class of competition than Majestic Prince has faced. In his last outing at Gulfstream Park, Top Knight won by five lengths in a field that included four Derby contenders...
...whipped home a winner her sixth time out of the gate. "A horse," she explains, "doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track." Tuesdee Testa, 27, the wife of a stable foreman and the mother of a two-year-old daughter, won at Santa Anita in her second race. She has also been initiated into the perils of her new trade: at Aqueduct two weeks ago, Jockey Willie Lester cut her off out of the gate, an unchivalrous act that caused Tuesdee to finish eighth and earned Willie...