Sentences with word «backstretch»

On a lonely backstretch of road largely unused since the highway was built, a message appears in big black letters, spread across three bright red canvases.

An on - site medical clinic for backstretch workers at Saratoga Race Course has cut back its services due to reductions in funding from the organizations that pay for the program.

A new escalator and elevator are on tap next year for Saratoga Race Course, along with updated dormitories for backstretch workers, according to NYRA officials, who also released their 2016 schedule.

AUSTIN, Texas — Blasting to the end of the long backstretch on the 5.5 - kilometre track at Circuit of The Americas, flat - out in the new 505 - hp Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio, I saw, ever so briefly, the number 143 (mph) on the digital speedometer before clamping down on the brake pedal.

¬ ∂ As the 20 - horsefield rumbled down the Churchill Downs backstretch, tossing clumps of lightbrown dirt into the clear, spring air, two sprinters — Keyed Entry and SinisterMinister — were dying on the lead.

On Friday, Matz stood outside Barn 42 on the ChurchillDowns backstretch and said, «The surprise for me would be if he loses.

He cruised downthe backstretch, moving comfortably behind crisp fractions of 22.63 for thefirst quarter mile, 46.07 for the half and 1:10.88 for three quarters.

Others on theBelmont backstretch were not so certain, pointing out that even if the hoof wasnot causing pain, it was surely causing Dutrow to alter Big Brown's trainingschedule.

Arlington's largely migrant Hispanic backstretch workers live in barracks - type housing with no kitchen facilities.

And horse owners whose employees stay in the NYRA backstretch dormitories may have to pay a security deposit.

We found ourselves exiting Turn 11, a hairpin, and surpassing 120 mph on the one - kilometer - long backstretch without even thinking of wind noise but gratefully aware of the cooled sport seats with suede inserts.

Even with a lap of more than three miles, there is no chance to rest with a great combination of slow - to mid-speed turns early in the lap and then a very long section of high - speed corners and a massive backstretch.

Most recently, Timeless, Kathy's oil painting of a morning backstretch scene at Saratoga Racecourse was chosen for the 53rd Annual Exhibition of the Society of Animal Artists (SAA).

Although the number of participants has fallen, the Hunger Coalition said the summer camp for backstretch workers» children at Arlington Park racetrack is a success story.

A new escalator and elevator are on tap next year for Saratoga Race Course, along with updated dormitories for backstretch workers, according to officials of the New York Racing Association who gave a report Wednesday to the NYRA Franchise Oversight Board.

Milner drove a storming final stint and had just moved up from third with pass going into the braking zone of the track's long backstretch, but the two cars went off track and briefly stalled.

People in the Belmont infield wept as he came, «all alone,» down the backstretch — partly because they were seeing athletic greatness, sheer and pure.

After taking the checkered flag, he ran out of fuel on the backstretch.

Cloppity, cloppity, cloppity, goes Silky determinedly down the backstretch and into the far turn.

But make no mistake; if anything, the instant notoriety that greeted the women's break from the starting gate seven years ago has obscured the fact that by and large they have been languishing somewhere in the backstretch ever since.

Only one acceptable answer exists and the resulting contact sent Almirola slamming into the backstretch wall, while Dillon swept into the lead.

Johnson's stride is always upright and twinkle - toed, and he appeared to rocket through the backstretch at full bore.

«Well,» said King, «when you look at him now, does he look like a horse who was leading Spectacular Bid down the backstretch in the Kentucky Derby?»

He saddled the colt, but he did not have a seat in the stands, so he never saw Spectacular Bid and the others blow past Great Redeemer down the backstretch.

Bombay Duck was flying down the backstretch at Churchill Downs in 1975, leading by three lengths, when someone in the infield threw a Frisbee over his head.

The day begins brilliantly clear at Philadelphia Park racetrack, with a few soft clouds feathering the horizon along the backstretch.

Hunter - Reay had led a race - high 28 laps and was running in the top three when his car began smoking down the backstretch.

Kenseth appeared poised to capitalize on Larson's misfortune until he was caught in a 10 - car crash on the backstretch on Lap 198.

The 38 - year - old driver was on his third of four qualifying laps when he lost control of his No. 18 Honda - powered car and slammed nearly head - on into the outside Turn 2 wall, then spun around and flipped once before coming to a stop on the backstretch.

After trying to back his crumpled car into Waltrip's, Gordon got out, marched onto the backstretch and threw his helmet at Waltrip's Chevy as it cruised by.

Early in the morning the day before the Marlboro, Keith Stucki, the trainer of Ancient Title, did some backstretch ruminating in Barn 11.

In a 1992 article in The North American Review entitled «The Corruption of Nobility: The Rise & Fall of Thoroughbred Racing in America,» Ferraro penned a stinging rebuke against drug abuse on the backstretch, saying, «In general, treatments designed to repair a horse's injuries and to alleviate its suffering are now often used to get the animal out onto the track to compete — to force the animal, like some punch - drunk fighter, to make just one more round.

«That's way too many,» says Dr. Gregory L. Ferraro, a widely respected veterinary surgeon who, disillusioned with what he calls the «rampant» use of drugs on the backstretch, walked away three years ago from perhaps the most lucrative private practice at Southern California tracks, which are among the most prosperous in the world.

Ferraro estimates that close to 70 % of racehorses have, at some point in their careers, been «tapped,» as these steroidal injections are called on the backstretch.

«Nash Turnerled past the stands, but then I moved up on the turn and went into the lead bymaybe three, four lengths goin» down the backstretch.

And no sooner had that unseemly mess subsided than Prairie Bayou, the Preakness winner himself, was galloping quietly down the backstretch in the Belmont Stakes when he broke down so completely that his left foreleg was a ruin — a broken cannon bone, a ruptured suspensory ligament and fractured sesamoid in his ankle, and a pastern bone so devastated, as an autopsy would reveal, that it looked like a building shattered by an earthquake.

And then the recession struck, along with the tax - law changes that removed horses from the roster of depreciable assets, and money grew as tight as the blue jeans on the backstretch.

As the backstretch economy has deteriorated, so have horses» joints.

Even today the images in black and white swim powerfully through memory: of Ruffian battling the colt head - and - head as they sailed down the backstretch, of the pigeon flying up in front of her, of Ruffian hobbling horribly and limping to a stop, and then Manny Gilman, the track veterinarian, fitting the shattered ankle with an inflatable cast and rising and walking away, both hands bloody.

Prairie Bayou was dragged out of a cooler on Belmont's backstretch and into a van at 9 p.m., less than four hours after he had died, and his body was transported in a van through rain and fog, with Brett driving behind in his car, to the lab 220 miles away at Cornell.

Popularsupport for Big Brown is difficult to gauge, but inside the game there was aresentment of Dutrow (and perhaps owners IEAH Stables, with their nakedlyeconomic goals) that spilled into the backstretch on Saturday evening.

When Affirmed cut off Alydar in the backstretch of the Travers, he became a loser even though he finished first

Once in positionon the backstretch Big Brown ambled along in third place, but with more than ahalf mile to run, Desormeaux began urging a horse who had typically dragged himto the lead with little asking.

It rained so hard on Sept. 2 that during the downpour it was almost impossible to see the backstretch from the grandstand.

And after the workouts he would head over to the track kitchen to play gin rummy with the backstretch workers.

It wastreated by Ian McKinlay, an amiable hoof specialist who was transformedinstantly into a backstretch celebrity, conducting his own daily pressbriefings on an arcane subject that Dutrow repeatedly dismissed asinsignificant.

The start in the Futurity at Arlington, however, is from the chute on the backstretch.

IN GATHERINGdarkness last Saturday at Belmont Park, trainer Nick Zito watched as horseswalked on a dirt path inside his backstretch barn, cooling themselves afterracing in punishing 90 ° heat.

Midway up the backstretch Rotz gave Silent Screen his head and he shot to a quick two - length lead around the far turn.

«I walked hots and worked on the backstretch at Ft. Erie when I was a young hockey player,» says Cheevers.