Word: winners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liston then rose, however, and the fight apparently started again, when Wolcott broke in and interrupted the opponents, declaring Clay the winner...
Immediately after he realized that he had been declared the winner, the neurasthenic champion went into his act. "I said my prayers regularly and Mohammed was with me," he proclaimed, "No evil criminal can beat...
Chris Pardee took the high jump a 6 ft., 7 1/2 in., and Aggrey Awori nailed down a broad jump victory with a 22 ft., 3 3/4 in. leap. Walt Hewlett was the two-mile winner in 9:35.2, and Olufemi Olunloyo grabbed a first in the triple jump with a 45 ft., 9 in. effort...
...field (at 15.2 hands and less than 1,000 lbs.), was the sentimental second choice, mostly because three of his four 1965 victories had come on Maryland's deep, sandy tracks. His breeding probably had something to do with it too. Sired by Ribot, two-time winner of the Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe, Tom Rolfe was foaled by the stakes-winning mare Pocahontas. Owner Raymond Guest, the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, named him after the son of the real Pocahontas, who grew tobacco in the days when smoking was still a social sort of vice...
...Dapper Dan flinched and broke stride-and in that instant Tom Rolfe won the race. Milo Valenzuela, who rode Dapper Dan, claimed foul. The stewards did their duty: they thought about it for 15 min. before they disallowed the claim. Richer by $12,810, his 10% cut of the winner's purse, Jockey Turcotte cheerfully admitted: "I really closed the gate on that other horse...