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...Aga Riza...
...course, but by judicious handling I made him stay." This statement was made last week not by Jockey Charles Smirke, who had just ridden Mahmoud to victory in the Derby at Epsom Downs, England, but by the 44th lineal descendant of the Prophet Mohammed's daughter, Fatima: Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan, Mahmoud's haunchy, paunchy brown-skinned owner, who was still waving his silk hat to show his enthusiasm. To balance his excited hyperbole the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems and owner of what, with the possible exception...
...week, after a delay at the post which alarmed radio announcers scheduled to follow the account of the race at 3 p. m. with the departure of the Queen Mary (see p. 17) at 3:15, the field got away smoothly. On a track baked rocky hard, following the Aga Khan's instructions, Jockey Smirke rode a waiting race. First Carioca, then Mrs. James Shand's Thankerton took the lead. Coming into the straightaway, big. grey Mahmoud, whom over-skeptical bookmakers, considering him a mere sprinter, had rated at 100-to-8, began to run. He crossed...
Last year the Aga Khan was especially pleased with Bahrain's victory because it was Jubilee year. Last week's Derby, though bookmakers estimated that more money had been bet on the race than ever before, was the gloomiest since the War. The huge crowd-perching on the tops of automobiles or busses, milling about fortune tellers' tents in the central enclosure, raising a great grey haze of dust above the Downs-was less rowdy than usual. The glass-enclosed box, where the Aga Khan last year received congratulations from his King, was banked with flowers...
Married- Prince Aly Khan, 24. son& heir of the Rt. Hon. Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah ("The Aga Khan"); and the Hon. Joan Yarde-Buller. 28. divorced last autumn by Thomas Loel E. B. Guinness, brewing scion and swank Conservative member of Parliament, who named Prince Aly as corespondent; in Paris...