For the geriatric set - Spike Jones and his zany band (big in Vegas in the late '40s, '50s, '60s) had a routine featuring lead comic Doodles Weaver wherein during the course of a musical number (William Tell Overature-esque) a horserace figures prominantely - in essence, throughout the race the lead is hotly contested between several horses and belatedly Weaver (as the track announcer) would add "and trailing by 30 lenghts and out of contention is Beetlebomb" - when the horses hit the stretch for the run to the wire Weaver mentions several horses ("fighting-it-out", "neck-and-neck", nose-to-nose") none of them being the way-far-behind, out-of-contention, Beetlebomb - the drama builds, the lead pack flashes by the finish line in a dead heat, then confusion reigns, and finally, after a pause punctuated by trumpet flourishes, Weaver dramatically announces the winner as "Beeeetllllebooooommmb"!!!! ---- well, today at Belmont raceway in New York, on a Belmont Stakes prelude card, a horse named Calidoscipio came from over 30 lenghts behind to win The Brooklyn Handicap (a highly graded stakes race) at the wire - Spike Jones, Doodles Weaver, and my folks must have been smiling from above - it's on Yahoo Sports but I'm link challenged ---- life imitates art, very cool

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Video link....http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/9354076/deep-closing-calidoscopio-captures-brooklyn

That horse was in the next county, he was so far behind. And 10 years. Once more to show the kids how it's done.

apparently multiple versions exist. i would have sworn "CollegeGirl and CollegeBoy are neck and neck" was part of the call.

here's a recreation of the BeetleBomb / Feetlebaum / Feitlebaum legend for the less geriatric set:


# owned all the spike jonES vinyl.

thanks for the links guys