Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard and Stretch Mazzone tied for third in the shot, and Gabler was also second in the broad jump...
...Preakness, the track was lightning fast as the nine horses shot from the starting gate. Noble Impulse, the pacemaker, chopped a second off the track record for the half-mile, 2 4/5 seconds off the seven-furlong mark (with a sizzling 1:23 1/5). In the stretch, Slasher Atkinson went to the whip and drove into the lead. Atkinson no longer had to worry about groggy Noble Impulse, but Eddie Arcaro, aboard Palestinian, had slipped through a hole on the bend. For the last 100 yards, the two were "on their bellies" with whips slashing in a photo finish...
Father Like Son. At the head of the stretch, with Capot at his throat, Olympia gave up. Capot opened a three-length lead and seemed to have the race in hand. Palestinian, now his nearest rival, wasn't gaining. Olympia had faded out of contention...
Glisson eased back, snuggled the rail and waited for an opening. In the stretch, Old Rockport finally moved out from the rail. But either the horse failed to respond with a 4-5 effort, or Glisson was too smart to use his colt up with the $100,000 Derby only nine days...
Poor baserunning by the Terriers contributed heavily to their defeat, as they strove repeatedly and vainly to stretch singles into doubles and doubles into triples. One man was thrown out stealing home with the bases loaded and one out, and two doubles in one inning failed to produce a run for the BU freshmen...