Word: backstretch
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...down the backstretch of the 1950 baseball season, the World Champion New York Yankees had been chasing the pace-setting Detroit Tigers. As late as mid-August the Yankees were in third place, 4½ games behind. Last week, as the American League pennant race entered the September homestretch, the Yankees spurted into the lead...
Hill Prince, after a rigorous spring campaign, had not raced for two months, and he came out full of run. Jockey Eddie Arcaro held the big bay off the pace until the field entered the backstretch, then let him move up on the outside. At the head of the stretch, All Blue* had the lead, but Hill Prince caught him with a rush in the last sixteenth. Hill Prince won by more than a length over All Blue, with Your Host third. Time for the mile and a quarter: a fast 2:01 1/5. The winner's purse...
...broke fast, with Brooks giving him a crack of the bat as he came out of the gate-the first time Citation had ever been whipped away from the post. But it was Bolero that set the pace, and Citation trailed him around the first turn and into the backstretch. It was a jet pace. Though the times did not count as official, Bolero was under the world records for five and six furlongs on the ultra-fast track.* Even so, he could not shake the Calumet colt...
...Whitney's Mr. Trouble outside with him. That left a hole on the rail wide enough for a cavalry charge, and Eddie Arcaro, who had not planned to go to the front so early, gave Hill Prince the gun. By the time they straightened away on the backstretch, the Prince had the race in his pocket...
...strokes, as in last week's column about little Bill Boland, the 18-year-old apprentice jockey who rode the winner of the Kentucky Derby (see SPORT): "A few minutes after the jockey room was cleared of its Derby confusion, four people [walked] down the track toward the backstretch stables. Hiking along just inside the clubhouse rail was a kid in a peaked cloth cap and leather windbreaker, with blue jeans clinging tightly to bowed legs. He carried one red rose from Middleground's blanket. The thousands who saw him pass didn't recognize...