Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having left Sunday from Poughkeepsie where they witnessed the Poughkeepsie Regatta, they are not without company. Every crew in the Regatta, with the exception of the winner--Navy--and Rutgers, is on the same special train for the exact same purpose...
...pole, and the old horse was leading by a neck. Breathing heavily, Honey Cloud lumbered across the finish line with one length to spare. Whitey Abel, as surprised as nearly everyone else at Long Island's Aqueduct track, dropped his binoculars in the excitement. But ancient Honey Cloud, winner of the first race he had run in nearly six years, took it calmly. At the great age of 13 (comparable to a human's 45 years), the old horse stepped into the winner's circle as if he did such things every...
...jockeys left the post hustling. Gordon Richards' jinx, which has kept him from winning England's greatest race in 22 attempts, was with him again. Tudor Minstrel showed briefly in front at Tattenham Corner, flattened out badly, finished fourth, out of the prize money. The winner: French-owned Pearl Diver, a 40-to-1 shot...
Harvard track took another long step forward last weekend when 10 Varsity specialists vaulted; throw, and hurdled their way to a third-place tie in he 71st annual outdoor IC4A championships on sun-backed Franklin Field, Philadelphia NYU, with 36 points, was the winner, Michigan State scored 25 points for second place, and the Crimson and Penn State each had 24 Forty-four other colleges also...
...half-long Epsom Downs next week, he will have to blame himself: he has already announced that he considers Tudor Minstrel perhaps the greatest horse he has ever ridden. If he loses, he can still relax on his 300-acre Wiltshire farm, race pigeons, fly airplanes-and ride a winner a day or so later. If that's the way it must be, relaxed, competent Jockey Richards can take it, without too much pain. Says he: "I've got a good bed, a good wife and a good car . . . that's really...