Word: seabiscuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...western leaky-roof circuit. He was in his 503 before he landed his first big-time training job, and today is one of the crack trainers at pointing a horse for a specific race. His first masterstroke: claiming a $7,500 plater and developing him into mighty Seabiscuit...
Last week, nasal sprays were no joke for Silent Tom Smith, the man who developed Seabiscuit and this year trained Cosmetic Queen Elizabeth Arden Graham's top money-winning stable ($512,454 in purses). New York's vigilant Jockey Club, having found some dopey spray in one of his horses, banned Trainer Smith from U.S. tracks for a year...
...Whirlaway, $561,161; Seabiscuit, $437,730; Sun Beau, $376,744; Alsab, $350,015; Equipoise, $338,610; Challedon, $334,660; Phar Lap, $332,350; Gallant Fox, $328,165; Shut Out, $317,507; Busher...
...stride eating up the ground. After just 50 yds., Devil Diver was three lengths back; at the wire, it was six. Megogo was never in the race. Without a single token tap of the whip, Susie had traveled the route in 1:56 3/5 - the identical time set by Seabiscuit in humbling War Admiral in the same race six years...
...Bobby Jones's 1930 "Grand Slam," the winning of both the U.S. and British Amateur and Open Golf Championships. Second (39 and 7) was Babe Ruth's pitching, fielding and homers. Among the 43 also-rans were two women (Babe Didrikson, Swimmer Nancy Merki) and three horses (Seabiscuit, Man o' War and Exterminator). Not a vote went to the most famous athlete in history: wrestling Jacob...