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- 1925 December, Earl Chapin May, “With Sande Up”, in Everybody's Magazine[1], volume 53, number 6, New York, NY: The Ridgway Company, page 149:
That same year he brought Bracadale up the stretch, to win by two lengths in the 1924 Withers. Both wins were credited to [Earl] Sande's racecraft. Sande's career is illuminated by many such victories. But it hasn't always been easy going for Sande.
- 1947, Home Journal[2], volume 101, Hearst Corporation, page 1:
Those boys just don't make any mistakes at all, and their flawless technique is so habitual, so ingrained, that they can concentrate all their effort on points of super-racecraft, little things that save a fifth of a second here and another there.
- 1964, William F. Nolan, Charles Beaumont, When engines roar[3], New York, NY: Bantam Books, page 126:
Here, in 1951, Ascari demonstrated the high order of racecraft he commanded when, with a small lead over his old rival Fangio, he calmly drew into the pits before his last lap. The Ferrari team was frantic. Ascari wanted the tires changed before committing himself to that long (14-mile) last lap rather than risk failure.