Word: trainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only the law of averages was in his favor: old Texas Sandman had never won a major race. The one moment in his life was the time two years ago when he finished second in a big race. Last week his trainer bravely entered him in the $50,000 added San Carlos Handicap, at California's million-dollar Santa Anita track. Among the 17 other horses in the race were Elizabeth Arden's proud Knockdown, and a swift horse named Buzfuz, recently flown in from Miami...
...Barclay, it should be an opportunity to get a much better line on his charges, especially his reserve corps. Eleven players, a trainer, a manager and the coach will be in the entourage. Joining the westward movement will be Captain Saul Mariaschin, John Gantt, George Hauptfuhrer, Leo Page, Steve Davis, John Noble, Bill Henry, Bob Crotty, Bill Harford, Frank Holt and Ted Nelson...
Willie Molter, who never says two words if one will do, learned his lesson the hard way. He comes from Fredericksburg, Tex. (pop. 3,500), also the home town of Max Hirsch, trainer of Kentucky Derby winner Assault. As a jockey on dusty, jerkwater tracks in Reno, Emeryville and Butte, Willie blew most of his apprentice salary finding out that nobody could tell who was going to win. Says he: "I couldn't even pick the winners I was riding myself." His toughest job is trying to hold down his five owners (including Movieman Louis B. Mayer, whose second...
...that wasn't all. Inside the field house, trainer Eddie Farrell, a Harvard institution himself and the team's most ardent supporter, installed a record-player in a corridor, and College songs invaded the dressing room and showers. Yale game cometh...
...ailing regulars, Vince Moravec and Henry Goethals, confined themselves to light workouts with trainer Jimmy Cox, but Emil Drvaric participated in all of the "A" team drills, and seemed nearly healed from the injury sustained against Brown last week...