Word: fager
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...Woodward Stakes at New York's Aqueduct race track to convince the few remaining doubters that Mrs. Edith Bancroft's Damascus is 1967's top three-year-old. That became abundantly clear when Damascus flashed under the wire a good 10½lengths ahead of Dr. Fager, who beat him in the Gotham Stakes this April. And that was the least of the triumphs. In their first meeting at the Woodward, Damascus put a quick end to all speculation about whether he was a better-or at least sounder-horse than Ogden Phipps's four-year...
...Fager, beaten only by two-year old champion Successor, defeated Damascus in the Gotham Mile last May. But on the basis of current form and classic breeding, Damascus will probably be the bettor's choice over the lightly-raced Dr. Fager...
...Fager can control the pace, he is unlikely to be headed. If a fast early pace tires Dr. Fager. stretch-runners Damascus, ridden by Willie Shoemaker, and Buckpasser, under the talented Braulio Baeza, will probably battle down to the wire--with the older Buckpasser a likely victor...
Hedever and Great Power, stablemates of Damascus and Buckpasser, respectively, will probably set a fast early pace in an attempt to tire the front-running Dr. Fager and Handsome Boy. The race may thus develop into an intriguing strategic duel, with Buckpasser and Damascus hoping to come from off the pace to overtake the fleet Dr. Fager...
Despite a chance of scattered showers and more publicized television clashes between the Red Sox and Twins, Damascus and Dr. Fager, Benvenuti and Griffith, and Dartmouth and Massachusetts, a crowd of 12,000 is expected to show up for the debut of the 1967 Crimson...