Word: aga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second largest offer ever made for a horse-$600,000 by the Aga Khan in 1926 to Sir James Rutherford, Scotch distiller, for Solarie, Ascot cup winner...
...Married. Aga Sultan, Sir Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, 52, "direct descendant of Mohammed," leader of 12,000,000 Shiite Mohammedans; and Mlle. Andre Josephine Marie Leonie Carron. 31, Parisian modiste; at Aix-Les-Bains by Playwright Henri Clerc, Mayor of Aix. Though the Aga Khan is so holy that spoonfuls of his bathwater are peddled among the faithful, he owns one of the finest racing stables in Europe, plays roulette, shoots craps. In delicate compliment to her husband, Mlle. Carron wore a wedding gown of her husband's racing colors (emerald & chocolate) banded with weasel...
...were not supposed to be there. For a shilling they sold pieces of paper with the name of the winner written thereon. Bookies with checked vests ran around the stand which towers at the end of the famed horseshoe shaped track Gentlemen with grey toppers peered through binoculars. The Aga Khan who two months ago offered $100,000 for Trigo was, of course, present. King George, who has been sick, and Queen Mary were not there. But Edward of Wales sat in a box with Princess Mary and her husband Of course, it rained. But Lord Lonsdale famed side-whiskered...
...called to the hazardous sport of cribbing, to the fast and savage new indoor game of feather wafting, to kodaking the koodoo in Africa, to drop-tag as a pleasing sport for the flyer, and to the fact that while you cannot afford to buy a race-horse, the Aga Khan. The pictures are better than the text, but of what sporting paper, is this not true? Leslie Cheek '31 supplies an uproarious cover, and the whole staff has been busy making composographs and very good composographs they have turned out to be. There is something bold and fine...
...with British masses who bet heavily on many an Aga Khan horse...