Word: bimelech
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...Edward S. Moore, socialite ranchers from Sheridan, Wyo., beat his stablemate. Get Off, by a head after tailing the field most of the way. For their owners, the pair won $60,000. Back in fourth place, a very tired horse, was Edward R. Bradley's Bimelech, 1940's three-year-old champion, odds-on favorite to win. His owner had sold Big Pebble to the Moores two years ago. Though it was the first time Champion Bimelech had ever finished out of the money, it was probably his last race. Word was that he would be sent...
From East and West came the cream of the three-year-old crop: Colonel Edward Bradley's Bimelech (winner of the Preakness and Belmont Stakes), Ethel Mars's Gallahadion (who outran Big Bim to win the Kentucky Derby), Charles T. Fisher's Sirocco (who beat Bimelech by ten lengths in the Arlington Classic). But it rained, Big Bim was scratched and Charles S. Howard's Mioland, pride of the West Coast, made the other two look like plough horses. Splashing lickety-split through the mud, Mioland led all the way, finished three lengths in front...
...tracks in the U. S. (Aqueduct, Belmont Park, Saratoga, Pimlico, Delaware Park, Laurel Park) can railbirds see the sportiest of all horse races, a steeplechase. Last week, when beautiful Belmont Park opened its 24-day spring meeting, most of New York's racing fans looked forward to seeing Bimelech and his high-toned contemporaries in some of America's most famed flat races. Dyed-in-the-tweed "regulars" were equally eager to scan the 1940 crop of jumpers...
...When Bimelech was roundly trounced in the Kentucky Derby last fortnight, railbirds refused to pronounce him a cheese champion until they had seen him in another race. Last week, at Pimlico. 55,000 racing fans turned out to see Colonel Bradley's glamor colt run in the $75,000 Preakness, second of the Big Three U. S. races for three-year-olds (1/16 of a mile shorter than the Derby...
...third. He was a colt who had never finished better than fourth as a two-year-old and had lost more races than he had won at Santa Anita last winter. Only four days before, in a mile race over the same track and with the same jockeys, Bimelech had beaten Gallahadion by almost three lengths. His owner, Chocolate Heiress Ethel Mars, decided not to go from Chicago to Louisville for the Derby, although her trainer, Roy Waldron, had phoned her that Big Bim's jockey had had to take to the whip to beat Gallahadion earlier...