Word: whirlaways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even if there is only one performer. In the stands 10,000 fans watched the track-not so much to see the rarity of a walkover (only 18 in the U.S. since 1910) as the popular headliner who had scared away eight rivals: Warren Wright's twinkle-toed Whirlaway. A sort of Veronica Lake of the turf, Whirly can draw a crowd even if he does nothing but swish his long golden tail...
...Savoy in London, the Crillon in Paris, the Astor in Manhattan, and when he was given quarters in the check room of Detroit's Book Cadillac. Tom Mix used to boast gratefully that Tony had earned him more than any race horse in history. (Earnings of Whirlaway: $511,406; of Tom & Tony...
...Albert Sabath's Alsab: a $25,000 match race, winner-take-all; by a nose, over Warren Wright's Whirlaway; after a pulldevil, pull-baker stretch drive that ended in a photo finish; at New England's Narragansett Park. Three-year-old Alsab carried 119 lb.; four-year-old Whirlaway, 126. The distance: a mile and three-sixteenths...
...Rounders, Texas Oilman Emerson F. Woodward's up-&-coming Irish-bred colt: the $25,000 Arlington Handicap; defeating (by three and a half lengths) turfdom's leading money winner, Whirlaway, who collected a mere $4,000 in second money; before a closing-day crowd of 30,000 at Chicago's Arlington Park. (Fortnight ago Rounders placed second in the $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap, when Whirlaway upped his earnings to $454,336 to eclipse Seabiscuit as the biggest money winner in horse-racing history...
...past three years a chestnut colt with a long blond tail has earned twice as much money as the President of the U.S. Last week, in winning the $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs, Warren Wright's Whirlaway upped his lifetime earnings to $454,336 and eclipsed Charles Howard's Seabiscuit as the biggest money winner in the history of horse racing. Owner Wright turns 10% of Whirlaway's earnings into war bonds...