Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Would William Woodward's Granville, favorite at 2-to-1, have speed and courage enough to repeat the victories of his sire, Gallant Fox, and Omaha, by the same sire? Or would bad racing luck-his jockey was thrown at the start of the Kentucky Derby; Bold Venture beat him by a nose in the Preakness-cost him this race too? Ten horses, bunched in a feathery cloud of dust, swung into the last turn, and Jockey Jimmy Stout on Granville made his bid. Granville caught the leader, John Hay Whitney's Mr. Bones. Then down the stretch...
...York's 90. Then 50 of Pennsylvania's 75. That clinched it-unless the rig should go haywire before the actual balloting. Alf Landon permitted himself to josh Harry Woodring, his Democratic predecessor as Governor, now Assistant Secretary of War, who had bet against Landon's luck. "Well, Harry," he said, "I'll invite you to dinner at the White House to compensate...
...Schwartz's Bold Venture. Bold Venture last fortnight retired for the season with a bowed tendon. No favorite of fortune has been Granville. In the confusion at the start of the Kentucky Derby, William Woodward's bay colt lost his jockey. As though this were not hard luck enough for one horse, Granville lost the Preakness, the Wood Memorial and the Suburban Handicap by almost imperceptible margins, each time after being ahead in the stretch. Ogden Phipp's White Cockade won the Withers. A week later he too was laid up, with bad knees...
...Kentucky Derby most nearly approaches the Epsom Derby as a spectacle, the Belmont Stakes, run at 1½miles and, judged by the blood lines of its winners, the most aristocratic U. S. race, most nearly approaches it as a test of three-year-olds. Because all the hard-luck horses who were sufficiently fit to function were entered in it, last week's Belmont drew a record crowd of 35,000. Bookmakers made Brevity favorite...
Like most major U. S. tracks Belmont Park has a camera which automatically photographs the finish of every race. Last week, after the Belmont Stakes, officials studied the photograph of the finish for five minutes, finally revealed the name of one more hard-luck horse. He, John Hay Whitney's Mr. Bones, had finished second by a whisker to Granville. Favorite Brevity was fifth...