Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victory was a sweet ending to a long, troubled journey for Owner Harry Meyerhoff, Trainer Bud Delp and Jockey Franklin. They had left the friendly and familiar confines of Maryland tracks last winter to campaign Spectacular Bid at Triple Crown prep races in Florida and Kentucky. As newcomers to big-time racing, they quickly found themselves snubbed by the Thoroughbred establishment. Meyerhoff, a retired millionaire builder from Baltimore, and his wife were not even invited to the traditional ball before the Flamingo Stakes, despite the fact that their colt was heavily favored and indeed won the race the following...
Franklin was first to find the finish line at Churchill Downs and, back home in Maryland, he basked last week in long overdue adulation. Neighbors decorated their houses with signs proclaiming WELCOME HOME, CHAMP! Later this week, his old high school will celebrate Ron Franklin Day, rare recognition for a truant who dropped out of school during his junior year...
...pride of Maryland wins the Kentucky Derby...
Spectacular Bid now goes to Maryland's Pimlico Race Course for the Preakness on May 19. He took the first two races of his career there, as it happens, and the bandbox track with the tight turns was also a training ground for Ronnie Franklin. It should be quite a homecoming for a pair of winners-a horse with enormous potential and a 19-year-old boy who proved at Churchill Downs that he could ride...
...rough-and-tumble of network politics. She is not just attractive and intelligent. Thomas J. Watson Jr., her boss and mentor at IBM, calls her "brilliant and practical." A West Coast producer, less admiringly, terms her "conservative, moralistic, businesslike and hard." A liberal arts major at the University of Maryland, the Washington, D.C.-born Pfeiffer joined IBM soon after leaving the convent at the age of 23. In her two decades there, she rose from a trainee job to a vice presidency, with a reputation for quick decisions and no false moves...