Word: seabiscuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...durability as well as speed, Whirlaway had gone to the post 58 times in three years. He was never scratched from a race in which he had been entered, ran on all sorts of tracks : holding, muddy, sloppy, slow, heavy and lightning-fast. Last summer, when he broke Seabiscuit's money-winning record ($437,730), Whirlaway seemed sound enough to surpass the Biscuit's 89 racing starts as well. But during the winter he developed a leg ailment that kept him out of training for several months...
...backers a run for their money. One summer, at Detroit, he won three races within eight days. One winter at Tropical Park he ran off with the Christmas, New Year's and Orange Bowl Handicaps on successive Saturdays. Cincinnati fans will never forget the day he outran Seabiscuit in a race at River Downs. But the biggest kick he ever gave his admirers was his performance in the Rhode Island Handicap at Narragansett Park four years ago. Setting the pace for famed War Admiral, Kentucky Derby winner the previous year, he rewrote the script by holding off the Admiral...
...leading money winner, Whirlaway, who collected a mere $4,000 in second money; before a closing-day crowd of 30,000 at Chicago's Arlington Park. (Fortnight ago Rounders placed second in the $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap, when Whirlaway upped his earnings to $454,336 to eclipse Seabiscuit as the biggest money winner in horse-racing history...
...chestnut colt with a long blond tail has earned twice as much money as the President of the U.S. Last week, in winning the $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs, Warren Wright's Whirlaway upped his lifetime earnings to $454,336 and eclipsed Charles Howard's Seabiscuit as the biggest money winner in the history of horse racing. Owner Wright turns 10% of Whirlaway's earnings into war bonds...
Chirped the railbirds: "He's another Seabiscuit...