Word: winningest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times, he has won three. Last week, with ten days still left of Hialeah's 40-day meeting, Baeza had already won 47 races-twice as many as his closest competitor, 15 shy of the track record Bill Hartack set in 1957, when he was the winningest jockey...
Embarrassment All Around. That, as it turned out, was just a hint of things to come. The folks who run the Cotton Bowl at Dallas were more than a bit embarrassed when the best team they could find to oppose No. 2-ranked Arkansas, the winningest (22 straight) club in college football, was Louisiana State, which had struggled through a soso, seven-and-three season. Oddsmakers made Arkansas a nine-point favorite. They counted without a pint-sized (5 ft. 9 in., 164 lbs.) tailback from Cut Off, La., named Joe Labruzzo. Twice, deep in Arkansas territory, Labruzzo carried...
...Warren Spahn, 44: a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers; in Los Angeles. Traded to the New York Mets by the Milwaukee Braves after a dismal 1964 season in which he won only six games, the winningest pitcher in baseball today struck out two men in the ninth inning to cut off a Dodger rally, rack up the 357th victory of his major-league career...
...Harvard junior said that he had been paired with "the winningest people you over heard of." He added, "I haven't seen any of them. I don't think I want...
...breeders insist that hounds are even easier to handicap than horses. For one thing, there is no jockey to worry about. Greyhounds reach speeds up to 40 m.p.h. on the straightaway. They compete without regard to sex, and the winningest dog of all time was a little brindled bitch named Indy Ann, who racked up 137 victories in the mid-1950s. Buying a hound is somewhat cheaper than buying a race horse (promising pups sell for $1,000 up), and far less chancy: unlike the ponies, greyhounds breed so true that handlers can predict the habits of a pup with...