Word: trainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citation is a horse who needs plenty of work. If he doesn't get it, he almost kicks the slats out of his stall. Rather than burn up the energy in morning workouts, Trainer Jimmy Jones decided last week that it was more profitable to give Citation his work in the afternoon. Jones entered the wonder horse in the $50,000 Stars & Stripes handicap at Arlington Park, Ill., his first race since winning the triple crown (TIME, June 21). It was only Citation's third race against older horses, easily the toughest handicap field he had ever faced...
...victory a three-year-old could be proud of-but it had been too risky. Said Trainer Jones: "I think I made a mistake in letting Citation run . . ." Next fall, Citation might be started against older horses again, in weight-for-age stakes. But for the time being Citation would take fewer chances with his laurels...
...mistake-changes in identifying marks. Both the Navy and the Air Force now use the symbol F for their new jet fighters. Other new Air Force designations: A for amphibious, H for helicopter, R for reconnaissance and photographic, S for search and rescue, T for trainer...
Ready for War. Tacho had a shotgun propped behind his desk. He intended to be prepared on all fronts. Last week his flyers took delivery in Miami of AT6 trainer planes bought by the dictator after the U.S. recognized Nicaragua last May. In the Dominican Republic, the eastern end of the Caribbean dictators' axis, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's mechanics were busy scraping the Dominican insignia off three P-38s. They were ticketed for Nicaragua, where Tacho had pilots waiting to fly them...
Some of the professional political handicappers and the sharper railbirds among the newsmen last week made out their form sheets on the Republican Convention. There were many imponderables. For one thing, no trainer or stable manager had complete confidence that his entry could be brought home in front with the needed 548 delegates (a simple majority of the 1,094 total). For another thing, while it looked like a Dewey-Vandenberg horse race on form, one of the entries was probably not going to start running until about the three-quarters pole. But handicappers agreed, almost...