Word: saratoga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turnout was 30 million in all. Around the calendar, rain or shine, there were 107 thoroughbred race tracks to go to?such huge showplace parks as Belmont. Hialeah and Santa Anita; such tradition-misted places as Kentucky's Churchill Downs, Maryland's Pimlico or upstate New York's Saratoga; such concrete-and-asphalt betting receptacles as New York's Jamaica and Aqueduct; dozens of obscure little tracks that horsemen call "bull rings." There were 50,000 registered thoroughbreds, at least half of them in racing training, and 1,400 tough, undersized and often brave little men to don the silks...
Cash on the Barrelhead. That Benedict Arnold, apothecary, merchant, and self-made soldier was a hero on the battlefield has never been made more clear. In Connecticut, in Canada, on Lake Champlain and at Saratoga, he fought with the kind of superb gallantry that lesser men might call foolhardy. But Arnold off the field was a different man. Vain, querulous and greedy, he loved rank at least as much as he loved his country, and was not above using his position to line his pocket through fishy and degrading commercial deals. That he betrayed his country for reasons of political...
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...Saratoga Springs, N.Y.. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Native Dancer, Eric Guerin up. romped, as expected (odds: 1 to 20). to his 17th victory in 18 starts, taking the $27,900, 1¼-mile Travers Stakes by 5½ lengths, in 2:05 3/5. Winner's purse...
...tide of war had begun to turn at Saratoga in the autumn of 1777, when Britain's grand plan to take the Hudson River Valley and thus split the colonies came abruptly to grief. General John Burgoyne, with 8,000 British and Hessian troops, came south from Canada almost unopposed. But General Howe, who was to go north to meet him, sailed away to take Philadelphia instead. An American army under General Horatio Gates blocked Burgoyne on high ground on the west bank of the river. Soon it did more: Benedict Arnold, the most daring, most ambitious, most feared...