Word: backstretch
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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During the first mile, Bimelech looked like a champion. He broke fast, caught up with Joseph Widener's fleet-footed Roman. Down the backstretch, he clung to Roman's heels. Coming around the far turn-where races are usually won or lost-Bradley's green & white silks flashed in front. Roman had faltered. It would be a breeze for Bimelech from...
...starters cleared the first jump, the second, the third. Then they began to tumble. At hair-raising Becher's Brook, Royal Danieli took the lead, kept it round the right-angle Canal Turn, over Valentine's Brook, down the backstretch, past the stands the first time around. At Becher's Brook, on the second circuit, he was still in front, with MacMoffat and James Neill's 50-to-1 shot Gold Arrow close behind. It looked as if the old Aintree jinx on favorites was not working...
...these thoughts flashed pell-mell through 75,000 minds, the thudding hoofs were coming closer. By the grandstand they flashed: Austin Taylor's Whichcee in front, Seabiscuit half a length behind. Rounding into the backstretch, the old trouper kept up with Whichcee's swift pace. Down the long stretch, silhouetted against the purple Sierra Madres, the Biscuit seemed glued to Whichcee's tail. Louder & louder the crowd roared as they seesawed coming into the homestretch-Seabiscuit nosing in front, then falling back, then in front again. Approaching the grandstands, Red Pollard flipped his whip and the Biscuit...